Poverty in Africa Quotes
All of Europe and the US and the other industrial democracies wanted South Africa to end apartheid and allow majority rule. Many had imposed strong economic sanctions upon the Apartheid nation. Botha, and most of the other Afrikaners, believed that Nelson Mandala and the Blacks were all communists or under the control of the communists, and that ending apartheid would turn South Africa into a Communist Country. Of course that was a paranoid fantasy as all movements for racial or ethnic equality are accused of being communists just as in the American South. When majority rule finally came to South Africa, it showed just how wrong the Afrikaners were as there has been a small communist movement in South Africa which has like the Italian communists functioned but had very little power or influence.
