I have known plenty of people who have left Rhodesia and South Africa... they will tell you it's because the blacks f**ked their country up (and yes, they tend to be fairly racist).
I know one guy who is Indian and was in the police. And being of that race, his status reflected this, he was middle ranking.
I believe his experience at the end of apartheid could be a fair representation. They offered money to the white officers to leave the service... the corrupt ones didn't take the money because it wasn't close to what they could make through corruption. The good white officers, knowing what was coming, left. In order to fill the gaps, they promoted black policeman from the lower ranks... putting them straight into a culture of corruption, and bypassing the Indians in the middle ranks, many of whom decided that enough was enough and left.
Furthermore, the elite police forces (of which my friend was a part) had dedicated themselves to counter terrorism against SWAPO and MK-ANC, so they weren't exactly in favour with the change of regime.
Corruption has been the bain of the whole continent, but this isn't back door colonialism, certainly not part of a new world order conspiracy. When economic imperialism does take place, it's pretty obvious... and yes, it is the Americans for the most part.
You should have seen the report that was on Newsnight last night about Sierra Leone. It would have given you a slightly different perspective on European relations with former colonies.



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