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what to do for the best without harming the non-white population was a very contentious issue. and of course, still is in Zimbabwe - the answer being 'nothing'.

I'm not sure I understand the comparison with Zimbabwe. The population as a whole may be suffering under the Mugabe regime, but it is not a case of the majority of the people being discriminated against by a minority of a different race.

Sorry but it is not true that successive governments were the same in actions against S apartheid, Thatcher refused to support the fight and Cameron flew out to SA for a company who supported apartheid, he dismissed it a just a jolly

Labour Party invited members of the ANC to visit the U.k and I was at the Labour Party conference in Brighton when Mandela was a guest and he thanked the labour anti apartheid movement for their support and their efforts to bring down apartheid

grumppa
The population as a whole may be suffering under the Mugabe regime
Yes, I didn't word it very well.

wot, not exactly a supportive wife in that case.

Have you read about the doctor in the UK who 'laid claims' to a white couples farm in Zimbabwe? After 30 years they lost their farm.

Interestingly reports say Mugabe has been ' redistributing ' land for 15 years and 90% of white farmers have lost their land because of ' redistribution '. Facts require confirmation.

The redistribution of land in Zimbabwe has been going on for years with the accompanying Mugabe thugs orchestrating it, so the latest land grab is no surprise. Anyhow they are while farmers, so who cares, probably serves them right!![hmmm] This is why Zimbabwe, once the bread basket of Africa, is now nearly bankrupt and it's people starving. Do I take it that some posters feel that tyranny is fine so long as it's towards the same race?! To me, tyranny is tyranny whoever is conducting it to whatever race. South Africa, sadly, in spite of such a promising start, is being coming more and more lawless. The president is openly corrupt, and like Mugabe, seemingly untouchable. The young seem to view Nelson Mandela as some sort of Uncle Tom. But not to worry, violence, corruption, terrorising the weak and disaffected is absolutely fine so long as it's a black government doing it!!!!

I didn't say that successive were the same, Ab, and I agree that their willingness to something about apartheid varied; that doesn't mean that they supported it as a policy.

Anyway, if it wasn't the governments or all the political parties, who were the "we" to whom you referred?

Although, grumppa it is the majority (black and white) being discriminated against by a gang of thugs an 'elite'.