One of the funniest cartoons ever drawn depicted the white South African president Pieter Botha (a lonely white dot at the edge of the drawing) telling thousands of black dots who practically occupy the entire drawing, “You are under arrest.”

Seeing that cartoon, I knew with reasonable certitude that Nelson Mandela and his followers would win. Apartheid was history.

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