Margaret Thatcher ‘believed South Africa should be whites-only’

Ex-head of diplomatic service also says former PM distrusted Germany and hated men with moustaches

Margaret Thatcher hosted Nelson Mandela at Downing Street in 1990
Margaret Thatcher hosted Nelson Mandela at Downing Street in 1990
(Image credit: Gerry Penny/AFP/Getty Images)

Margaret Thatcher suggested that South Africa should be a “whites-only state”, distrusted Germany and hated men with moustaches, the UK’s former chief diplomat has alleged.

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