When the winds of change turned into a blitz of revolution that prefaced Nelson Mandela’s release from jail in 1990, there was a sigh of relief only brief enough to let the people who’d been anticipating his return rejoice. That moment was followed by some of the deadliest Black-on-Black violence the country had ever witnessed, and the years following were dedicated to ensuring that South Africa’s story did not come with the kind of civil wars that neighboring states like Angola and Mozambique, themselves comrades in the struggle…
