This is why I made the distinction between someone like Ramaphosa and his power-base. Yes, third-world dictators always use anti-white rhetoric and anti-colonialist rhetoric to shore up support for their autocracies, and it works because their native support base is certainly ideologically committed to those ideas. But the ANC, even back in the Apartheid days, were taking money from the (white) Soviets to fund their terrorism, just like they take money now from the (white) Russians. It's not about ideology for a leadership that has been in power this long. They're much too cynical for that.
This is why I made the distinction between someone like Ramaphosa and his power-base. Yes, third-world dictators always use anti-white rhetoric and anti-colonialist rhetoric to shore up support for their autocracies, and it works because their native support base is certainly ideologically committed to those ideas. But the ANC, even back in the Apartheid days, were taking money from the (white) Soviets to fund their terrorism, just like they take money now from the (white) Russians. It's not about ideology for a leadership that has been in power this long. They're much too cynical for that.