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As a fellow South African I think Guy has said it all most succinctly. I'd like to add that as a kid in school growing up in the 80's it was telling that we had to be trained at school on how to ID the various landmines, limpet mines etc because schools were considered legitimate targets for bombing. Our streets and malls never had any refuse bins of any sort because these were prime spots to place a mine to target shoppers.
I could almost understand them regarding whites as the enemy, but seeing how Mandela's government so readily signed off on the massacre of so many Sierra Leonians and seemed so eager to see his former FAPLA allies in Angola overrun by Jonas Savimbi's UNITA in the 90's simply to spite an organisation that they felt was made up of former SADF soldiers. Of course the lure of cheap diamonds was probably also a factor, but there you go..
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