by Paphitis » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:18 am
Apartheid did give Blacks a lot of autonomy within the country and funding.
It was not a racist policy per se, at least not in the true sense. The authorities merely recognised that whites needed to be separated into their own areas from Blacks, and the current reality in South Africa vindicates Apartheid somewhat.
South Africa probably has a lot less to worry about in the racism stakes compared to the RoC and the sooner we realize this the better because only then will the RoC see better days and a true BBFederation. The mere fact we played silly buggers in 1963 to 1967 is very telling as to where we stand in the racism stakes, and I put it to the forum that perhaps we are on par to South Africa. Without doubt, countries such as the US and Australia are miles ahead so you can't define them as "racist run".
Then we had stupid ENOSIS, even when the RoC had everything but alas, the shithheads amongst us pissed that up the wall. It resulted in an invasion and 200,000 GC refugees.
There is a train of thought that GCs had the democratic right to demand ENOSIS. That is NOT the case. There was a 20% TC minority, and you can't legally force them into something they genuinely feared. It is like Australia which has a 75% Anglo/British population. They do not have any democratic right to demand ENOSIS with the UK (not that they ever wanted it) and take the other 25% with them.
It seems to me that a few on this forum need to take a good long hard look at themselves.