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

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sp1814 | 10:09 Mon 22nd Jan 2018 | News
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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?
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/// which has been serialised in the Mail On Sunday. ///

Aren't you always saying, "you can't believe what you read in the Mail"?
/// "Would white folks have stooped to do the mining?" ///

Plenty did it in this country, but I can't ever remember seeing any black miners.
I have no idea of the veracity of what he claims - just a thought for those who aren't keen on the source offering this up.

Maybe buy the book?
“Plenty did it in this country, but I can't ever remember seeing any black miners.”

I’m guessing that being a hated minority deep underground with people who didn’t like where “accidents” could easily happen may have had a little to do with it.
Jahulaye

That is a horrible thing to accuse the true 'salt of the earth' British miner of.
It certainly is, deep below the earth every man was your brother.
“That is a horrible thing to accuse the true 'salt of the earth' British miner of.”

Many apologies, I had no idea you knew every British miner and whether or not they had racial tendencies.

Have a read here

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/black-miners-britain-nottingham

“Gregory estimates that between the early 50s and the late 80s there were nearly 1,000 men of African-Caribbean origin working in Nottinghamshire mines at any one time.”

Which pit/pits did you work at Aog?
We were all black underground! The pit head baths did restore differences though.
reminds me of the kind of diaries that teenage girls write.....much wishful thinking and little fact.
naomi24
//I don't believe it for a moment. If nothing else it would have been an impossible goal.//

What - a bit like Hitler's Aryan race?
anotheoldgit /// "Would white folks have stooped to do the mining?" ///

AOG
Plenty did it in this country, but I can't ever remember seeing any black miners.


Were you into minerthology AOG? (everyone needs a hobby I suppose)

I worked with many black miners.
Jahulaye's posts are equally as stupid as AOG's.
// "Would white folks have stooped to do the mining?" //

um yes - my father was a miner in south africa in the late twenties. ergo. - as a POW in Germany, yes he mined .....
With an over 80% black population and only 8.4% white, it highly unlikely that it could possibly have worked, Thatcher or no Thatcher.
It certainly wouldn't work these days, what with everybody down there making such a great job of things.
No I didn't have anything to do with mining, and no Talbot my answer was not stupid, what I actually said was "I can't ever remember seeing any black miners", which was a perfectly true statement, I didn't, that was not that there were none, as some have later proved.

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