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Wednesday 17 April 2013

The Iron Lady Many Won't Miss

She came, she saw, she conquered. That could be the way Margaret Hilda Thatcher would have liked to be remembered. The Iron Lady of British politics achieved the distinction of being the longest-serving prime minister of Britain since 1827. Her conservative politics led to the implementation of such radically-conservative policies as the poll tax. In her single-minded determination to reverse Britain's economic decline in the 1980s, she promoted policies based on monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, small government, lower taxes and free trade. She successfully crushed the influence of the hitherto powerful trade unions, privatised state-owned industries and fought a decisive war with Argentina to keep the Falkland Islands under the British flag.

Thatcher demonised socialism and championed the ultra-conservative version of free market economy. While the moneyed class hailed her policies, the less privileged were convinced that her ascendancy to power was the equivalent of a political pestilence. She was as admired as she was hated. It is difficult to imagine a more divisive political personality in the life of Britain since the era of the quick-witted Winston Churchill. Thatcher might have been good for the Conservative Party of Britain. Her policies might have brought joy to many in her country. She might have gone into the record books as a great advertisement for the dictum, "What a man can do, a woman can do even better". But when considered from the African perspective, her tenure as prime minister was not glorious.
In the heat of the South African liberation struggle against apartheid, Margaret Thatcher was on the wrong side of history when she denounced the African National Congress (ANC) as a "typical terrorist organisation" and rejected calls for sanctions against the racist white minority government. In 1987, she went as far as clashing repeatedly with the Brian Mulroney government as she bitterly opposed Canada's efforts to introduce Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa.
Characteristically, she never admitted error. It is a measure of the kind of intense passion she generated that, on her death, many online commentators gladly jettisoned the time-worn tradition of not speaking ill of the dead. Last week, the London-based Independent reported the findings of a media monitoring firm, Synthesio, that about one-third of the first 25,000 comments posted online after her death were negative. In Ireland, when news of her death spread, hundreds gathered in Belfast and Derry, honking horns and waving flags as if Ireland had won the rugby World Cup.
No doubt, Margaret Thatcher was a remarkable woman who was a heroine to many in her country and in the Western world. But she can never be regarded as a heroine in Africa.

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