Frikkenator
Expert Member
Also can you imagine what would have happened to the SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY if he started a war and whites started fleeing the country ? White people back then still controlled the economy... And as one ANC "struggle hero" said: "I didn't join the struggle to be poor"
Mandela was also being praised around the world. If he had gone to war with whites he wouldn't have had all those praise and be compared to a demigod.
And therein lies the choice