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May 1, 2015 · The Thatcher who swilled whisky with Denis and his South African-supporting friends was not the same Thatcher who allowed Renwick to play an active role as a political problem-solver and to mix with activists in the townships.
- Saul Dubow
- 2016
- Why Was The Queen So Upset by Thatcher’s Refusal to Back Sanctions?
- Was Press Secretary Michael Shea Made to Take The Fall?
- Did Economic Sanctions Help to End Apartheid?
- Prince Andrew’s Wedding to Sarah Ferguson
The Queen’s role as head of the Commonwealth is her raison d'être, says Dominic Sandbrook, and she was gravely concerned that Thatcher’s refusal to back economic sanctions against apartheid-era South Africa could damage the Commonwealth, or even lead to its breakup. Embarrassed that Britain was “out on a limb”, she wanted Britain to fall in line wi...
In The Crown, press secretary Michael Shea is cornered into resigning after being made to take the blame for the Sunday Timesstory. The Queen’s private secretary, Martin Charteris (played by Charles Edwards), is seen telling the monarch they need “a culprit… to deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP”. (Interestingly, in reality Sir...
Apartheidcame to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government, led by Nelson Mandela, in 1994. The economic sanctions imposed on South Africa in 1986 had served to isolate the country in the international community and to highlight its oppression of its people. Sanctions also “helped cripple th...
Elsewhere in episode 8 we see Prince Andrew preparing to marry Sarah Ferguson. He informs the Queen that he has chosen his younger brother, Prince Edward, rather than Charles, to be his best man, calling him an “insecure, jealous fool” who cares only about his bloodline and “to hell with the rest of us”. He tells the Queen that Charles has always b...
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Apr 9, 2013 · Thatcher’s loathing of apartheid on moral grounds, as well as her conviction it made ‘economic nonsense’, was well understood in Pretoria.
After the independence of Zimbabwe in April 1980, the frontline states turned their attention to the decolonization of Namibia and the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Margaret Thatcher...
If there is a historiographical consensus about scientific racism in South Africa, it is that the phenomenon played only a limited role in the history of apartheid.1 Paul Maylam maintains the postwar generation of Afrikaner nationalist writers moved away from ‘cruder racial theories’ and increasingly explained racial diferentiation by recourse t...
Jul 6, 2020 · Policies and ethics. Harriet Aldrich’s focus is on the challenge that apartheid South Africa posed to Canada and Australia, both key members of the ‘old’ Commonwealth. In 1961, Canadian prime minister Diefenbaker took an overtly strong stand against apartheid, to the...
Dec 15, 2021 · South Africa’s example offers lessons from the extreme racial segregation practised under the guise of apartheid while the Zimbabwean case offers a good example of how colonialism delved into the politics of race and colour in the region.
