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>
> I think the ending of the cold war
> had a lot to do with the kind of
> deal that the ANC was able to
> negotiate. With the passing of
> the Soviet Union, the ANC was
> under much greater pressure from
> the US and EU to bow to the
> neoliberal consensus, which as it
> so happened would leave the South
> African economy in the hands of
> the same people who owned and
> ran things under the apartheid
> regime.
>
If the Cold War hadn't ended, would the Western powers have accepted a presumably unreliable black government in the first place? I have no intuitive idea of how much domestic vs international concerns weighed on these things.