Southern Africa Book

List of illustrations     xii
Acknowledgements     xiii
Glossary of acronyms     xv
Outline chronology of main events     xviii
Introduction     1
Southern Africa defined     2
Consequences of the collapse of the Portuguese Empire     2
The economic and social dimension     4
Early European economic motivation, the slave trade and the Scramble for Africa     4
Portuguese colonial policy     7
Rhodesian land and labour policy     10
South African policy 1948-90     11
Command and market economies     17
The formal and informal sectors     18
Land     20
Trade, aid, debt and 'breaking even'     24
The Southern African Development Community     27
Health     30
The status of women     35
The political dimension     38
South Africa before 1948     38
South Africa 1948-74     42
Rhodesia and Portuguese Africa before 1974     45
The repercussions of Portuguese imperial withdrawal 1974-8     50
South Africa 1978-94     53
Angola     58
Namibia     63
Mozambique     67
Zimbabwe     73
South Africa     85
Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho     92
General conclusions     98
The security dimension     102
The demographic preponderance of Blacks over Whites. White 'laager' mentality     102
Portuguese, Rhodesian and South African security practices relating to non-Whites     103
The main security problems post independence/majority rule - illegal immigration, criminal violence, and spill-over of conflict across state borders     108
The pivotal position of South Africa     111
The foreign policy dimension     114
South Africa's situation prior to 1960. Growing hostility of Third World to her thereafter over apartheid     115
South Africa leaves Commonwealth     116
British/Rhodesian/South African diplomatic relations post 1965     116
South Africa's 'outward looking' foreign policy     117
South Africa's 'destabilisation' policy     118
South Africa: Mandela and Mbeki compared and contrasted     122
The New Plan for African Development and the African Union     124
Peacekeeping missions     125
The Southern African Development Community     127
The Zimbabwe issue      130
Liberation and reform politics     132
Conclusions     135
The main economic, social, political, security and foreign policy concerns considered in Chapters 1-4     135
The way ahead     139
Notes     141
Select bibliography     147
Index     151