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  Keef: I think you will find that Roger is right that there was no apartied in Rhodesia. The argument back then was over independence and 'universial suffrage'. They fortunately escaped the worse excesses of aparteid though of course it was not what we would call an 'equal' society. The whites feared that if the vote was extended to uneducated blacks Rhodesia would go the same way as so many other ex-colonial states and descend into a tin-pot dictatorship.
  
  Mrs Thatcher managed to get a power sharing agreement and solved the Rhodesia issue at the time. Sadly the whites worse fears have materialised with Mugabe and a once prosperous country that fed half of Africa has decended into the same mess as many other African countries.
  
  There can be no doubt at all that all the people in Rhosesia were much better off back under Iain Smith compared to now.

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