>> Apartheid was a nasty business, but others didn't feel the need to murder innocents to express their view.
Killing people merely to 'express a view' is the sort of thing half-witted Islamists do. The ANC did its acts of violence not to 'express a view' but to help overthrow a regime that had racism built into it as a policy.
The regime's days were numbered anyway since the world had moved on and apartheid was being widely condemned, so not much violence was needed. I agree with others that De Klerk deserves much credit too.
When I was a child and adolescent racism was thought quite normal and was systematically preached by (among others) the Beaverbrook Press in this country. Take a look at your old Rupert Bear books if you don't remember. Things couldn't change fast enough for me, but it seems others have a certain nostalgia for that stuff.
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