It is rather unfortunate that a country like South Africa, which the US have excellent relations with still have to obtain waiver for her people to enter US.
The restriction is a lost-long issue of some 16 years after the end of Apartheid; 15 years after Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Prize for Peace and and 14 years after heading the South Africa executive.

May be the South Africans were never interested on how to resolve the issue not until now that the list is revisited.

Be it as it may, some Reps... Howard Berman, D-Calif., Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. etc are heading a bill that would remove current and former ANC leaders from the watch lists. Also, the Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice strongly supports the Senate Reps that introduced the bill, which aims to remove these restrictions. They bill is hoped to be passed before Mandela's 90th birthday, July 18.

It is hopeful that the the ANC and it’s leaders will be cleared from the US black-list as soon as the law is passed.