What were 4 main factors leading to the demise of Apartheid in Africa?

If this is part of your homework, then don't use the following answers. Your teachers expect you to tell the lie and not the truth.

The main reasons that Apartheid finally collapsed are as follows:

1. The Cold War came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The West no longer felt the need to prevent Marxist ideologies from spreading through Africa. If you doubt that the ANC was a puppet of the Soviet Union, then explain why the South African Communist Party has always been in coalition with the ANC, and why the ANC had a key KGB agent - Joe Slovo - as such a dominant figure in the movement. The West felt that it could allow the Apartheid regime to relinquish power, only once the Soviet Empire collapsed.

2. Massive corruption within both the National Party and the ANC. The ANC basically bought the "franchise" to plunder South Africa and its people from the National Party. As an apparently populist African movement, the ANC was in a much better position to exploit this opportunity than the National Party was. Senior Afrikaners in the Apartheid government are for the most part enjoying the huge wealth that they plundered and received though this arrangement. Making a deal with the ANC assured them that they could legitimately continue to enjoy this wealth unchallenged. If you doubt this, ask yourself: where does FW de Klerk live? How did people like Tokyo Sekwale and Cyril Rhamaphose and thousands of others suddenly become billionaires and millionaires when they took over? Were they really such clever businessmen? If so, why didn't they make a penny in all the decades that they spent in exile living off the Swedish and a couple of others (who now in return for their generosity get multi- billion dollar arms contracts) ?

3. The Apartheid system was fundamentally dishonest. Even though the principal of self-determination and separate development does make sense, it does not make sense if one group (the whites) is making that determination on behalf of another group. Systems such as this must eventually implode.

4. Whites were tired of fighting their fellow countrymen and the international media. White South Africans are probably less racist than whites who live in 1st world countries, who generally claim to be race blind, but who still somehow manage to live in white neighbourhoods, with white schools, and white whatever they can get. White South Africans were and are certainly less racist than most black people in South Africa, and elsewhere, are today. White South Africans could have gone on promoting apartheid for another 50 years, but they honestly did not feel strongly about it.