Southern Africa

This major addition to the Making of the Contemporary World series looks at the contemporary history of the whole Southern African region, focusing mainly on the period since 1974 to the present, but drawing on the post-war period as background. 1974/5 saw the collapse of Portugal's African empire and Jonathan Farley asserts that this set in train a whole range of developments in the southern part of the continent which led to the current situation. The book is thematically structured and looks at all aspects of Southern Africa a?? economic and social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environment, and the role of women a?? making it a valuable resource for a wide range of courses alongside history, from politics and IR to economics and African Studies.

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