What would be the implications for the RSA, Apartheid, the ANC and the world?
Glancing at recent related posts Apartheid would have ended with the end of the cold war anyway eventually and there had been meetings between the ANC, the RSA government and Big RSA corporations in the 80s so ground work had been laid.
I heard that in the embryonic stages of the Northern Ireland peace process all the parties were brought out to South Africa to meet Madiba, but such was the level of bitterness between the DUP ( extreme unionist-loyalist party, whoose boss was Paisley ) and Sinn Fein ( virtually their mirror opposite on the Republican side ), their leaders had to be flown out separately from each other, they also insisted on staying in different accomodation and guess what? The great man had to give his speech twice! Also the DUP representatives had seen the bar in the room where th Shinners were staying and were incensed as it was bigger than theirs, and pointed it out to the trip organisers, who retorted - but ye are mostly fundamentalist christians who do not drink at all and they responded - but that's not the point! Paisley refers to alcohol as the 'Devil's buttermilk' BTW several leading republicans including McGuiness don't drink either as they have witnessed the damage alcohol abuse has done to their heartland areas and people! There had also been talks about talks in Germany (Dusseldorf, I think)!
Without encouragement from The Grandfather of the Rainbow nation and his help on many other issues, the world would be much darker, hence my question on the global scale implications if he had been executed and thank God that did not happen!