While many people would recall February 10, 1990, as the day when FW de Klerk announced that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison the next day, not many would know that three years earlier, on the same date, the Ronald Reagan administration in the US announced its major shift in foreign policy towards apartheid South Africa.
After continuously defending the Pretoria regime and supporting the pariah of the world against sanctions, the US finally relented.
Even though Republican Reagan had imposed sanctions on South Africa in