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The International Politics of Southern Africa: Change or Continue?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Timothy M. Shaw
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Soweto, Rhodesia, and Umtata in 1976 are poignant and pointed symbols of change and continuity in Southern Africa. Regional politics here as in other international subsystems are characterized by the tension between order and continuity on the one hand and opposition and change on the other. This trinity of symbols consists, in part, of a revival of the violence of Sharpeville, earlier diplomacy over Zimbabwe and Afrikanerdom’s continued ambivalence towards the demands of African nationalism. But clearly it also embodies new features, especially the apparent inexhaustibility of black anger, the greater imperative of a settlement, and the unacceptability of “separate freedoms” respectively. Moreover, both the regional and global environments have evolved significantly in the last decade so that apparently similar events in Southern Africa may now have new meanings, implications, and results.

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 19 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1976 

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Notes

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11. “The Secretary of State Press Conference, 11 September 1976,” p.3.