Nelson Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Yes, sanctions were helpful, but sanctions are not enough if you do not have a strong indigenous democratic movement in your country.

Some things seem impossible until they are done.

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

He did not make any of his reforms with the intention of putting himself out of power. He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.