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The end of UDI and the admission of Zimbabwe into the Commonwealth in 1980 removed the most bitter bone of contention of the previous 15 years. But it brought little respite for Britain. In his report for the 1981 Chogm, Secretary-General Ramphal said that the resolution of the Rhodesia issue had not taken Southern Africa off the agenda. If the Commonwealth were to be true to its principles, it had to bring apartheid in South Africa to an end. Therefore the 1980s were years of further crises for the association. If disintegration never seemed likely (as it had in the 1960s), consensus was now breached — and by none other than Britain.
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McIntyre, W.D. (2001). Apartheid and the Crisis of the 1980s. In: A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403900951_7
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