There is nothing baffling, it's just politics as usual. The was West was perfectly fine with Apartheid in South Africa when SA was fighting communists in Africa

There is nothing baffling, it's just politics as usual. The was West was perfectly fine with Apartheid in South Africa when SA was fighting communists in Africa. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Regan publicly called Nelson Mandela a terrorist. When South Africa wasn't need anymore all of sudden Western countries started to care about Apartheid.