The parties were virtually banned during some time in this country . Only white people could hold political gatherings . By 1960 some African countries were already on their way to political liberation . But in SA look at the things that were banned . Take a country like Zim for example one of the white prime ministers was told to fuk of because he was already giving rights to blacks .
I was told the Rhodesian regime fell apart because John Voster refused to support it anymore (Boer hate for the british, kinda narrow-minded). To be honest, Mugabe only 'achieved' this liberation after Rhodesia lost support.
You think a political alone could have made the world aware of the grave human traversty which was occuring . Askari , impimpi were all over the place because it looked dire as far as freedom was concerned . Some had lost hope and decided to feed their families by selling out .
Alll these were happening and the regime was not showing any signs of easing its grip.
They had good reason to believe so, I mean the Swapo and MK people weren't exactly the bunch of happy clappers they make themselves to be now. Also take a look at the rest of Africa, the white man left and civil unrest took place, not to mention communist funded organisations and Africa being made a playground for the cold war. All in all the SANDF did what they did because they believe it was in the best interest of country to not fall to a communist organisation.
IFP and ANC started fighting at a later stage because one party was thinking about homelands and the other was thinking about THE NATION . Hate em all you like , but those people shed blood for this country .
The started fighting once the ANC came to power (or was about to), basically this happened because there were no 'impiriririrrir' left to regulate them, it makes you wonder what the SANDF's real agenda actually was (maybe to keep black these type of organisations from killing each other)
in any case the point is, the ANC can only convict these people because they are now in power, the fact remains that half of them should be in jail too, alongside their impiri buddies
