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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by mlindner on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:24AM (#30933125)
> Emeralds from a mine in Zambia, a country that had similar apartheid laws stemming from the fact that they were ruled by the same Britain that ruled South Africa, isn't exactly lying. The OP's details were just a bit fuzzy.

Zambia wasn't apartheid.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by heavyset_go on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:57PM (#30937341)
> Emeralds from a mine in Zambia, a country that had similar apartheid laws

Notice that I said similar here, because Zambia did have laws that were similar to apartheid laws in South Africa.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by mlindner on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#30980752)
Zambia notably had an African (black person) president though.
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