I'm not old enough to remember. I known the basics of the armed struggle of the ANC, bantustans, Cuba in Angola, etc. But not enough to compare it to Israel today. My general suspicion is Israel is worse but the US is way more committed to backing Israel than it was apartheid South Africa. I'm mostly want to gauge how the anti-apartheid movement was going then compared to now. Any resources or personal experiences.
Not OP, but unfortunately the ANC made deals with the neoliberals, which made them not a threat to the US political and financial establishment.
I highly recommend this essay from the late John Pilger (and his interview with Mandela in it). An excerpt: