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Re:A spy who helped to end apartheid by Synaesthesia on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:26AM (#28422246)
That's not true, because it wasn't called that when it happened. There was global outrage in fact.
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Re:A spy who helped to end apartheid by postsantum on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:37AM (#28422287)
My comment is about what would happen today, in the very different political and ideological climate. The word decolonization would be dropped quite a few times
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Re:A spy who helped to end apartheid by Synaesthesia on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:46AM (#28422327)
Note that Zimbabwe is still under US/Western sanctions which started quite a while ago.

Well I hope it would correctly be called the cynical capture of farms by a few connected elites and not a real redistribution of wealth.

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