20 Years On: Why Did It Take a Prisoner to Bring Down Apartheid?
Channel: GaiusThyrsus
Date: 2014-04-24

JOHANNESBURG — The 20th anniversary of the end of South Africa's despised apartheid regime falls on April 27. It came about in a surprising way: not by violence or revolution, but through compromise and negotiation. Two prominent South Africans who were at the forefront of the discussions -- and on opposite sides of the negotiating table -- say it was the courageous act of one man, Nelson Mandela, that made that possible.