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Code that helped end Apartheid

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358 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Simulacra ◴[18 Oct 24 13:57 UTC] No.41879526[source]▶
I think it was the fishing trip with Mandela and then-Prime Minister F.W. de Klerk in 1990 that ended apartheid. Specifically when one of de Klerk's people got a hook in his hand, and a Mandela person cleaned and bandaged it. After that trip Apartheid was finally broken.
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1. nxobject ◴[19 Oct 24 00:20 UTC] No.41884619[source]▶
I disagree with how this post was downvoted so heavily – this in an illustrative moment of rapprochement near the end of apartheid; saying it ended apartheid was a figure of speech, of course it didn't end apartheid in and of itself. It's as reasonable as saying that the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War.