I need a history lesson, what happened to the apartheid leadership when Mandela took control?

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Mugabe >>>> Mandela real talk.

 

[godkiller]

When you're standing up for something because you're against certain actions and policies, and then for you to get power and do the same thing you were rebelling against, it legitimizes the very actions you sought to break away from.

No, it does not.If you hold onto a belief that says "this is bad, no one should do this" it is MUCH different than the belief "this is bad because I am the victim of this, but it is acceptable if I'm not the victim" .

The problem is that when a person conceptualizes the wrong ideas. A man can simply accept the wider notion that invaders on his land and oppressing his people is wrong, and not only must everything be given back, but punishment levied. That man can conceptualize that invaders have no rights in the first place and were you in his land, you wouldn't have any either. A man can conceptualize ever higher authority by assuming that he is simply doing what he must for his people, and that his people are more important than his enemy. See how easy it is?

It's only when someone believes that an invader has any right at all after their crimes that they deserve anything at all.

 

[TTT]

What Mandela did was not in any way different than any other post-colonial transition in Southern Africa. Mugabe did exactly the same at Independence , in some areas he surpassed Mandela. For instance he gave whites a guaranteed representation in Parliament, kept the head of the spy organization and some key army personnel for the transition. Ian Smith , the guy who declared independence from Britain and refused to leave power, was an MP at the time. He even kept his farm when the other white farmers were dispossessed. Some of the largest landowners in the country are still white. The leaders chose this path because they knew that disorderly and chaotic transitions wont benefit the country in the long run, for South Africa the mass murders between 1990 and 94 were threatening to split the country. They had to persuade Buthelezi who viewed himself as some sort of voice of the Zulus to contest elections at the very last minute. I think nation building was a bigger concern soon after apartheid that they limited the brief of the TRC to political violence cases than the larger crime of apartheid that wasn't really discussed.

 

[IVS]

LMAO! They were allowed to get off free as birds and given forgiveness trials rather than being brought to justice. Folks allowed that christian ideology to poison their brains and their captors to go unpunished. Meanwhile the "Jews" are still hunting down the Nazis and bringing them to justice for their human rights violations.

They werent killed and they did not run away. They simply were forgiven and continued with their lives in south africa. I dont even think they dealt with any form of reprimand or restitution.