Why did britian and usa suported the apatheid regime of botha in souhth africa, but now condeming mugabee?
I think you have to check your sources. Pieter Willem Botha was a long-time leader of South Africa’s National Party and a staunch advocate of racial segregation and the apartheid system. His father, also named Pieter, fought as a commando against the British in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) and his mother was interned in a British concentration camp. Botha hated the British, In the years leading to World War II, Botha sympathised with the German Nazi Party and joined the right-wing Afrikaner nationalists in the Ossewabrandwag, or Oxwagon Sentinel (OB). However in later years, with Allied victory looming in Europe, Botha jumped ship and turned to Christian nationalism instead. In the 1980s he began a secret nuclear weapons program in collaboration with Israel, which culminated in the production of six nuclear bombs. He also remained steadfast in South Africa’s administration of the neighbouring territory South-West Africa, particularly while there was a presence of Cuban troops in Ang
