Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
The decolonization process set in motion by the spectacular change of government in Lisbon in April 1974 produced a geopolitical earthquake across all of southern Africa. Its repercussions were deeply felt in the Republic of South Africa, where the government was forced to undertake a fundamental reassessment of South African relations with Mozambique, with Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and with Namibia (South West Africa).
A version of this article is to be published shortly as a chapter in a book. Race and Politics in South Africa (Transaction Book), edited by Philip Whitten and Ian Robertson.