Hello,
In die Times, die tydskrif is die volgende artikel en soos bekend het David Cameron daarvoor om verskoning gevra:
Thatcher is most frequently criticized for her implicit support of South Africa’s apartheid state: while she nominally opposed that racist regime, she thwarted international efforts to place sanctions on South Africa and gave its white supremacist leadership a veneer of legitimacy by befriending then Premier P.W. Botha (pictured above). Most infamously, she lambasted the African National Congress of imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “terrorists” and is said to have expressed doubt that the ANC, which had a leftist guerrilla wing, could ever supplant the apartheid-era regime. The ANC has been in power for nearly two decades now, and Thatcher’s unwillingness to back them at the apex of their struggle has embarrassed many, including current Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron, who in 2006 decried “the mistakes my party made in the past with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa.”
South Africa was not the only place where Thatcher perhaps ended up on the wrong side of history. She remained steadfast friends with onetime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ever since the latter aided the British during the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982. Pinochet came to power in a 1973 coup — allegedly engineered by the CIA — that violently unseated a democratically elected socialist government. Yet Thatcher, in 1999, credited the general for “bringing democracy to Chile”; Pinochet at the time was living in the U.K., locked in a legal battle to avoid extradition to Spain, where he could be charged for human-rights abuses during his near two-decade-long rule.
Baie dankie
Wouter
Kommentaar
Wouter, ek dink daar is 'n groot fout in die artikel wat jy aanhaal. Langs Mandela se naam staan “terrorists” in aanhalingstekens. Die aanhalingstekens is 'n fout. As die Kerkstraatbom nie 'n terroriste aanslag was nie (Mandela het dit goedgekeur), asook Wimpy Bar aanvalle en talle ander voorvalle, dan weet ek nie wat 'n mens dit moet noem nie.
Thatcher was realisties met haar vermoede dat die ANC dalk nie in staat was “(to) supplant the apartheid-era regime”, want jy weet tog self hoe hulle sedert 1994 “gestruggle” het na hulle bewindsoorname en nog steeds struggle om die staatsadministrasie en munisipale dienste aan die gang te hou. Wat die land gered het was dat die oorname eers in 1994 geskied het. Die ANC was in 1994 nog nie heeltemal gereed nie en as dit veel vroeër geskied het soos Thatcher se teëstanders dit wou hê, was hier 'n groot gemors.
Dankie! George