AHC: Democratic South Africa in the 70's?

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Lets say that somehow South Africa democratises ealier or there is some shared power arrangment wherein the majority rules.
What place might a democratic South Africa have on geopolitics?
How would they react to regional conflicts in Portugese Africa?
What might the economy look like without sanctions?
 
Depends a lot on the political leanings of the new government and how the government came to pass. It's conceivably possible to get the ANC and other groups to not be explicitly communist in a democratic South Africa, but one has to bear in mind that the gap between the early 1970s National Party (which ran South Africa more or less unchallenged through the apartheid era) and the ANC on most social and economic issues is very wide.
 
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