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During the revolution against apartheid, a number of communist organizations allied themselves with the ANC against the White minority regime. A few of the communist leaders rose and became officials of the ANC. The vast majority of the ANC supported private enterprise with the kind of socialist aspects that were then typical of the Scandinavian countries, Germany and even France. Mandela, before the successful ousting of the Apartheid held a number of communist ideas and principles as the “capitalists” were making money from the apartheid system and there would support the status quo, However, he had a change of heart and mind regarding private enterprise after the successful effort to end white minority rule. He was good to his word, and even after he retired, the ANC and the government maintained pro private enterprise policies.