For those of us who grew up in, and also for those of you who lived in any part of, the second half of the 20th century, it is not hyperbole to say we witnessed a miracle.
Everyone, or virtually everyone, expected that there would be a blood bath in South Africa as the white led Apartheid system came under attack. Forces on the right and the left in that country fanned the flames of their separate views that no negotiated solution was possible for South Africa.
But though there were many deaths and many points at which the country came to the brink of civil war, it didn’t happen.
