Former President Thabo Mbeki says Zimbabwe had to delay its land reform processes back in 1990 at least for a decade so that the ANC could successfully negotiate with the apartheid government in South Africa.
Mbeki says at that time President Robert Mugabe wanted to take land from white farmers and return it to its rightful owners in Zimbabwe.
He says if Mugabe had continued with this process, it would have prevented the apartheid government from surrendering its power to protect the white population.
Delivering the Robert Mugabe Memorial Lecture in Durban Tuesday, Mbeki also called on South Africans not to forget countries such as Nigeria and Zimbabwe that stood firmly against the oppressive apartheid government.
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