Why did the eternal anglo support South Africa but not Rhodesia?

South Africa had shit to give them.

>>1316716
South Africa didn't actively try to piss off Britain.

>>1316730
but making minority rule in Rhodeisa fall helped destabilizing south africa. There is no way they didn't expect that to happen
>>1316739
Please explain

>>1316716
IIRC the main goal of Western powers was to stop the wars whatsoever. Since there was no way ZANU/ZAPLA would have backed down there wasn't much point in prolonging the bloodshed. Rhodesia was bound to fall without large scale military aid (probably even with it eventually), but really, you can't expect any Western power to just roll in there and get bogged down in some dumb Africa-wide conflict for years if not decades. Not for a small and relatively irrelevant country like Rhodesia.

The UK expressed moral support for the solution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, but saw that there was no point in officially helping it as it was a lost cause.

Cecil Empty Rhodes didn't find any gold.