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My recollections are similar, based on what I gleaned from talking with South Africans with SACP affiliations and ANC affiliations in the late sixties.

Once the committed brutality of the apartheid regime became apparent in the early sixties, Mandela came to the conclusion that state violence could only be combatted with violence against the state. But he distinguished between four forms of violence - sabotage, guerrilla warfare, terrorism...

Indeed. As Mandela himself made clear in his statement to the South African Supreme Court at the conclusion of his trial in 1964:- "... for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa prepared to treat Africans as human beings and their equals; who were prepared to...