Nelson Mandela greets people as he walks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on his arrival in Ottawa, ON June 17, 1990 for a three-day visit to Canada.
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney, who died Thursday at the age of 84, was a vocal opponent of apartheid. Mulroney and his government consistently called for an end to white minority rule of South Africa's majority Black population and marshalled Western support for economic sanctions against Pretoria.
Mulroney's subsequent public denunciations of apartheid and efforts to marshal Western opposition against it were never forgotten by the nation. Current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his sadness Friday at the "passing of a leader who holds a special place in South Africa's history."
Stephen Lewis, Mulroney's ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988, described the prime minister's warning to South Africa as a pivotal moment in the General Assembly. Reflecting on his conversations with the U.S. president in the 1980s, Mulroney wrote in his 2007 memoir that Reagan "saw the whole South African issue strictly in East-West Cold War terms."
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