Do You Think That A Whites-Only South Africa Could've Worked?

[sp1814]

We have no proof that Thatcher really believed in this, just what is written in Sir Patrick Wright's diaries.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/margaret-thatcher-south-africa-whites-only-state-patrick-wright-a8171356.html

Seems an odd stance, don't you think?

[kvalidir]

It's a ridiculous stance but it doesn't surprise me. Ghastly woman.

[Islay]

I make no secret that I am pro Thatcher but I am not blind to her faults - I simply cannot see her having this stance though!

[naomi24]

I don't believe it for a moment. If nothing else it would have been an impossible goal.

[emmie]

completely impossible to do that.

[-Talbot-]

Can't stand Thatcher but there's a distinct lack of evidence for this.

South Africa as it stands is hardly ticking over like a Rolls Royce engine though is it.

[zebo]

All these diaries contain is unsubstantiated tittle tattle but had she, or anyone, called for a 'blacks only' South Africa would it have raised any comments?

[Togo]

What like Zimbabwe Zebo?
Plus if you compare sp's op which says "A Whites-Only South Africa Could've Worked?" with what is actually in the bilious link it is a somewhat different slur. More confected poppycock.

[ToraToraTora]

well it ain't working now is it?
Anyway there is no evidence TGL believed this. Sounds like another lefty hate fest to me.

[sp1814]

TTT

A lefty hate fest?

This is from the diary of former head of the Diplomatic Service, Sir Patrick Wright - which has been serialised in the Mail On Sunday.

[ToraToraTora]

yes but the usual suspects will use it an opportunity to slate TGL. I guess they've had scant material lately so you needed to dig some up.

[sp1814]

TTT

Nothing to do with the left. The Mail is the one serialising it. Everyone is free to comment on it - whether they think it's likely to be true, or whether Sir Patrick Wright is a liar. And if he is lying - why?

[jno]

without the extremely cheap labour of blacks, it's hard to see how it could have worked. Would white folks have stooped to do the mining?

[Togo]

sp hates the Mail....... but thinks the Sunday Mail is marvellous?

//I think the Daily Mail is a scumbag newspaper because of its incredibly low standards of journalistic integrity. //

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10/01/2018
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1588682-6.html

[gulliver1]

What the hell had it got to do with thatcher, she made enough mistakes in destroying the UK. ........... TBW as her cabinet often called her

[youngmafbog]

That wuld be because the MoS clearly has a lefty slant on it these days.

It certainly seems to be an odd thing to say. If anything along those lines was actually said I suspect that it has been taken out of context to help peddle the diaries.

[andy-hughes]

Could a 'whites only' South Africa have worked?

Clearly not, for the reasons given.

Was that Mrs Thatcher's desire, along with the other contentious ideas suggested? It's impossible to know, and since she is unable to defend her views, or indeed refute these suggestions as her views, it makes debating this notion somewhat redundant.

[sp1814]

Togo

Yes. I think the Mail is a rubbish newspaper - but this is about Thatcher and Wright.

[douglas9401]

"Would white folks have stooped to do the mining?"

I doubt miners would ever have been part of her master plan.