A highlight of the trip was Algeria, in Mandela’s words “the closest model to our own.” But that is where the resemblance ended. The decades that followed would record a sharp difference in both the nature of the struggle and its outcome in the two countries: faced with the reality of an independent Algeria, a million pied-noirs would leave for France. In South Africa, however, most settlers would stay, becoming part of the post-apartheid political community.
