Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of freedom and equality, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.
E xikarhi ka lava a va lwisana na mfumo wa xihlawu-hlawu e Afrika Dzonga nale misaveni hinkwayo, u vile mfungo wa ntshuxeko na ringana ka vanhu, hala thlelo mfumo wa xihlawu-hlawu na matiko lawa amawu seketela vanwi voneke yena na ANC tani hi mukhomanisi na mutherorisi.