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Southern Africa Under Siege: Options for the Frontline States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

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With the intensification of the Southern African crisis, its ramifications have spread ever more widely until now they pervade and corrode virtually every sector throughout the black states neighbouring South Africa. The prospects for peace and prosperity in the region, once heralded with such high hopes, have long since faded as energies have increasingly been absorbed in the daily challenge of sustaining a precarious human existence.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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Page 550 note 1 ‘SADCC: Development of Infrastructure and Enterprise’, Arusha, 28–29 January 1988, p. 2.

Page 551 note 1 In fact, the increase applied only to the price of ‘breakfast’ meal and not, as so widely rumoured, to the staple ‘roller’ meal.

Page 552 note 1 Destabilisation is generally considered to comprise all military and non-military measures short of open warfare and invasion, and has been defined by Manley, Michael, Jamaica: struggle in the periphery (London, 1982), p. x, as ‘an orchestrated plan to bring a society to the verge of chaos and paralysis’. In the case of Angola, South African actions have reached, if not actually exceeded, the upper limits of destabilisation.Google Scholar

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