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^{page 433 note 2} The I.D.C. is a semi-autonomous agency created by the 1940 South African Government ‘to the end that the economic requirements of the Republic may be met’, according to the 1974 Handbook of IDC (Johannesburg, 1975), p. 7.Google Scholar A condition of the loan was that South Africa was to be given preference for the necessary technical skills and materials, when these were not locally available.

^{page 434 note 1} Source: Malawi News (Blantyre), 30 March 1974.

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^{page 444 note 3} Rhodesia Herald, 12 November 1966, cited in African Research Bulletin – Political, Social, Cultural, III, 1966, p. 666c.

^{page 444 note 4} Ibid. 3 November 1971, cited in Africa Digest (London), IX, 1, February 1972, pp. 17–18.

^{page 445 note 1} ‘Malawi Survives a Squall’, loc. cit. p. 6.

^{page 445 note 2} ‘Malawi Helps Portugal to Fight Frelimo’, in Sunday News (Dar es Salaam), 21 February 1971.

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^{page 447 note 1} ‘Army Strength to be Doubled’, in Agence France Presse (Paris), 1 August 1972, and ‘Malawi’, in Barclays International Review (London), September 1972, p. 23.

^{page 447 note 2} Algerian Press Service (Algiers), 25 October 1971, cited in African Research Bulletin – Political, Social, Cultural, VIII, 1971, p. 2264A.

^{page 447 note 3} ‘Malawi: Wooing OAU?’, in Africa (London), 16, December 1972, p. 43. But Malawi had been absent from the June 1972 O.A.U. Summit Meeting in Rabat, giving the reason that the agenda contained colonial issues which had already been discussed – African Research Bulletin – Political, Social, Cultural, IX, 1972, p. 2497A.

^{page 447 note 4} ‘Malawi Border Battle Cools’, in The Star (Johannesburg), 5 May 1973, and ‘Malawi and Portugal Deny Border Clash’, in Sunday Times of Zambia (Lusaka), 6 May 1973; also see ‘Malawian Press’, in Africa Confidential, XIV, 14, 6 July 1973, p. 8.

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^{page 449 note 1} Jardim, Jorge has recently written Mozambique: Terra Queimada (Lisbon, 1976)Google Scholar, which includes a Section on his perceptions of Malawi-Portuguese relations and his rôle in them.

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^{page 454 note 2} In April 1974, Banda suspended the recruitment of labour for the South African mines after 75 Malawians died in an aeroplane crash in Botswana on their way home at the end of their contract period.

^{page 455 note 1} One clause of these agreements takes into account the possibility that other African countries might wish to co-operate in ‘mutually advantageous undertakings’, according to Denman, Della, ‘Mozambique and Tanzania set up Co-operation Commissions’, in Financial Times, 9 09 1975.Google Scholar Also see Avirgan, Tony, ‘Machd Turns to Nyerere’, in The Guardian, 04 1976.Google Scholar