“When you make a nice table, everyone wants to sit at it.”
Especially, when you kick people off their land and from their homes and relegate them to some strange “homeland,” they have a tendency to want to return to that table where they once owned homes, but were forcibly removed.
Unless, after the event in history, you make them a nice table.
Which is what Mr de Klerk says he failed to do.
This is like why the so-called Palestinian refugees are kept in poor overcrowded camps.
Tell that to Native Americans...
What homes? The ancestors of most of the blacks now in South Africa came from further north, seeking jobs in white-developed areas. As for the "table" (built-up areas, working modern farms, factories, etc), it was built by the white colonists. Once it was built, you had people coming in and desiring to sit at the table.
In retrospect, I think many South Africans may be thinking the colonization of North America was the better model.
Well, there is the little issue that they did the same things to people there before them, so I wouldn’t get too cross.