Just as those who removed apartheid in South Africa, the dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet communism in Eastern Europe -- all thought the unimaginable.
Ironically, the white farmers have thrived under the ANC, which removed apartheid-era price controls and in some cases enabled them to increase their profit margins.
At Crystal Palace she had to avoid a sit-down protest on the track and at another meeting in Edinburgh there was a television blackout because the local council refused to remove anti-apartheid banners.
Demonstrations dogged her races: there was a sit-down protest at Crystal Palace, she was literally chased off the English cross-country championships at Birkenhead, and there was a television blackout in Edinburgh because the council would not remove anti-apartheid banners.
Gordimer once said: "We were naive, because we focused on removing the apartheid government and never thought deeply enough about what would follow". Maureen Isaacson, a literary journalist, said: "She was disappointed with the symptoms of corruption she was seeing.
The Islamic State hacks French TV channels, protesters demand police be arrested over the deaths of 20 suspected sandalwood smugglers, South Africa removes an apartheid-era statute of Cecil Rhodes, and more.
Today: Islamic State hacks French TV channels, protesters demand police be arrested over the deaths of 20 suspected sandalwood smugglers, a North Korean cargo ship remains detained in a Mexican port, and the University of Cape Town removes an apartheid-era statue of Cecil Rhodes.
It is situated on land originally (and again) owned by the Makuleke people, who were removed by the apartheid government in the late 1960s.
In October Pik Botha, a former foreign minister, conceded that words such as "eliminate" and "remove from society" were commonly used in the State Security Council, apartheid's power centre.
