Macky Sall’s response did not disappoint Senegalese traditionalists : For much of the 1980s, the United Kingdom and United States were perceived by some South Africans, not wholly without reason, as tolerating the apartheid government. 
Kwa kiasi kikubwa kwenye miaka ya 1980, Marekani na Uingereza zilionekana machoni mwa baadhi ya Waafrika Kusini, kama nchi zilizokaa kimya pasi na sababu, zikivumilia serikali ya ubaguzi wa rangi.