They worked and ate and raised families. Now they are raped, killed, burned, starved (because those farms that had been built up from nothing over generations by white settlers were taken over by Mugabe suck-ups and family members and they didn't plant, they can't, even if they cared to lift a fat finger because there is no seed, no machines, no livestock -- it was all destroyed or eaten). Now, if they're lucky, the black captives of brutal dictator thug Mugabe can escape across the border to South Africa.
I am in complete agreement with you; someone asked about apartheid in Rhodesia, and I answered to the best of my knowledge.
Mozambique approached Portugal years after independence, to see if they would administer it again; Portugal declined. They’re weren’t fools.