Thatcher’s ‘whites only’ South Africa
MARGARET Thatcher wanted a whites-only apartheid state in South Africa, a new book claims.
The claims emerge from the diaries of Sir Patrick Wright, head of the Diplomatic Service at the end of her years in No10.
Describing her views on South Africa, Sir Patrick wrote: “She wanted a return to pre-1910, with a white mini-state partitioned from black states.”
He also said the PM favoured a “pushing off” policy – refusing to allow them to land – during the 1989 Vietnamese boat people crisis. She was “oblivious of appalling implications with photos of drowning children”.
She “loathed” Germans and disliked men with moustaches for looking “like hairdressers”.