Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20140303123544/@comment-10975360-20140306194142

it is true that mandela was only a figurehead, but as president he was successful in stopping what could so easily have become a mugabe-like revenge campaign against the whites from happening

i think if he had died, that winnie would have become much more influential, and could potentially become leader of the ANC, and the first black president