CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Throughout the long Cold War one of the West’s principal concerns was the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. On the one hand it was feared that the main liberation movement, the African National Congress, had fallen under Communist control. This considerably complicated the West’s support for the anti-apartheid cause because the last thing the West wanted was a Soviet-aligned regime in Pretoria sitting atop the world’s largest single biggest source of mineral wealth.
On the other hand the possibility loomed of a race war which could have dire effects on race relations throughout the world.
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Source: European Voice
