[pjc50]

> It was reporting by British media, politicians, celebrities and ordinary citizens that put pressure on the apartheid government to end apartheid

Not just British, it was a global effort and a global boycott. The British government of the time wasn't a supporter of Mandela.

> I am sure Hitler was going to prefer that other countries don't report on what was happening so that he can continue to eliminate all German Jews.

The Holocaust was barely reported at the time. Much of the details were only discovered by horrified Allied troops that overran the camps. Internment and the other racial discriminatory laws were reported; and the wave of Jewish refugees was, along with the high levels of opposition to taking in refugees.

Some of those have very striking parallels today.

[madiathomas]

I singled out Britain because they were the most vocal in the fight against apartheid. Maybe it was because they were our former colonisers. They are the ones who imposed sanctions that helped. As for US, it was in fact the CIA who gave apartheid government intel which led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela.