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by Guy Arnold

4 Rhodesia Herald, 7/12/1971

  5 D. R. Thorpe, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996, p.425

  6 Thorpe, op. cit., pp.425–6

  7 Thorpe, op. cit., p.428

  8 Hugo Young, Sunday Times, 14/01/1973

  9 Ken Flower, Serving Secretly, John Murray, 1987, pp.121–2

  10 The Times, 4/06/1974

  11 R. W. Johnson, How Long Will South Africa Survive?, Macmillan, 1977, p.122

  12 Johnson, op. cit., p.123

  13 Flower, op. cit., p.127

  14 Johnson, op. cit., pp.127–8

  15 Flower, op. cit., p.164

  16 Daily Telegraph, 6/07/1977

  17 Flower, op. cit., p.191

  18 Flower, op. cit., p.213

  19 Flower, op. cit., p.210

  20 Financial Times, 24/05/1977

  21 Guardian, 8/07/1977

  22 Martin Bailey, Oilgate, Coronet Books, 1979, p.83

  23 Bailey, op. cit., Interview, 18 April 1979, p.87

  24 Bailey, op. cit., p.92

  25 Report of Observers on behalf of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Free and Fair? The 1979 Rhodesia Election, quoted in ‘Zimbabwe’, Destructive Engagement, editors Phyllis Johnson and David Martin, p.44

  26 Flower, op. cit., p229

  27 Flower, op. cit., pp.247–8

  28 Phyllis Johnson and David Martin, ‘Zimbabwe’, Destructive Engagement, p.43

  29 Flower, op. cit., pp.267–8

  30 Flower, op. cit., p.269

  31 See Destructive Engagement, Note 5 to Chapter 2, p. 352

  Chapter Twenty-One The End of Portuguese Africa

  1 See Africa Digest, vol. XVII, No. 4, August 1970

  2 The Times, 23/12/1970

  3 Colin Legum, Observer, 14/01/1973

  4 Financial Times, 27/05/1970

  5 South African Star, 13/06/1970

  6 Daily Telegraph, 14/03/1972

  7 The Times, 10/07/1973

  8 Le Monde, 26/07/1973

  9 See Africa Digest, vol. XXI, No. 1, February 1974

  10 Rand Daily Mail, 30/01/1974

  11 South African Star, 23/02/1974

  12 See Elizabeth Morris, ‘Portugal’s Year in Africa’, Africa Contemporary Record 1971–72, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1972

  13 John Miller, Daily Telegraph, 03/09/1970

  14 Basil Davidson, West Africa, 16/08/1970

  15 Africa Contemporary Record 1972–73, Angola, B482, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1973

  16 Africa Contemporary Record 1973–74, Angola, B527, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1974

  17 Michael Knipe, The Times, 21/08/1974

  18 Sunday Times, 20/10/1974

  19 See Elizabeth Morris, ‘Portugal’s Year in Africa’, Africa Contemporary Record 1972–73, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1973

  20 Africa Digest, vol. XX, No. 2, April 1973

  21 See Elizabeth Morris, ‘Portugal’s Year in Africa’, A83–9, Africa Contemporary Record 1973–74, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1974

  22 Daily Telegraph, 29/07/1974

  23 See Elizabeth Morris, ‘Portugal’s Year in Africa’, A71, Africa Contemporary Record 1974–75, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1975

  24 Africa Contemporary Record 1974–75, Guinea-Bissau, B670, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1975

  25 Elizabeth Morris, op. cit. Africa Contemporary Record 1974–75

  26 See Jane Bergerol, ‘Portugal’s Year in Africa’, A112, Africa Contemporary Record 1975–76, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1976

  27 Bergerol, op. cit.

  Chapter Twenty-Two Namibia

  1 Statement in the Supreme Court of South Africa, Transvaal Provincial Division, Pretoria, 1 February 1968

  2 Stanley Uys, Observer, 12/03/1972

  3 Rand Daily Mail, 18/01/1972

  4 Laurie Flynn, Studded with Diamonds and Paved with Gold, Bloomsbury, 1992

  5 Flynn, op. cit., p.41

  6 Flynn, op. cit., p.42

  7 Flynn, op. cit., pp.44–5

  8 Flynn, op. cit., p.48

  9 Roger Murray, Jo Morris, John Dugard, Neville Robin, The Role of Foreign Firms in Namibia, Africa Publications Trust, 1974, p.42

  10 Murray et al, op. cit., p.44

  11 Rand Daily Mail, 2/11/1973

  12 Testimony by Hon. David Newsom on 27 March 1973, before the House Subcommittee on Africa, in US Congress, House of Representatives committee on Foreign Affairs, US Business Involvement in Southern Africa, Part III (Washington D. C: Government Printing Office) p.12

  13 Murray et al, op. cit., p.202

  14 Murray et al, op. cit., pp.46–7

  15 South African Star, 16/02/1974

  16 Phyllis Johnson and David Martin (editors), Frontline Southern Africa, Ryan Publishing, 1989, p.150

  17 Barbara Konig, Namibia The Ravages of War, International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1983, p.30

  18 Konig, op. cit., p.50

  19 Konig, op. cit., p.55

  Chapter Twenty-Three South Africa: The Critical Decade

  1 Guardian, 18/12/1970

  2 Financial Mail, 1/11/1974

  3 Rand Daily Mail, 7/02/1972

  4 Denis Herbstein, Gemini News Service, 24/02/1972

  5 Daily Telegraph, 22/02/1973

  6 See Africa Digest, vol. XVIII, No. 6, December 1971

  7 Sunday Times, 5/12/1971

  8 Rand Daily Mail, 5/07/1972

  9 See Africa Digest, vol. XVIII, No. 4, August 1971

  10 Rand Daily Mail, 20/01/1973

  11 See Michael Tanzer, The Race for Resources, Monthly Review Press, (NY and London), 1980, pp.178–87

  12 Tanzer, op. cit., p.182

  13 Tanzer, op. cit., p.185

  14 The Economist, 23/01/1971

  15 Adam Raphael, Guardian, 12/03/1973

  16 Guardian, 2/05/1973

  17 Rand Daily Mail, 31/03/1973

  18 Guardian, 6/06/1973

  19 Guardian, 13/09/1973

  20 Benjamin Pogrund, Sunday Times, 16/09/1973

  21 David Loshak, Daily Telegraph, 31/10/1973

  22 South African Star, 22/12/1973

  23 South African Star, 5/01/1974

  24 South African Star, 2/04/1978

  25 South African Star, 19/12/1970

  26 Derek Ingram, Gemini News Service, 26/04/1971

  27 Guardian, 20/08/1971

  28 See Colin Legum, ‘Southern Africa: The Secret Diplomacy of Détente’, pp.A3–A15, Africa Contemporary Record 1974–75, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1975

  29 Legum, op. cit., p.A7

  30 Jim Lobe (Washington), ‘1975: Angola, Cuba and the CIA’, West Africa, 15–21 April 2002, p.22

  31 Conakry Radio, 22/02/1975

  32 See Colin Legum, ‘Southern Africa: How the Search for Peaceful Change Failed’, pp.A39–40, Africa Contemporary Record 1975–76, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1975

  33 See R. W. Johnson, How Long Will South Africa Survive?, Macmillan, 1977

  34 Johnson, op. cit., p.177

  35 Johnson, op. cit., p.191

  36 Johannesburg Sunday Times, 12/12/1976

  37 Rand Daily Mail, 5/01/1977

  38 See Colin Legum, ‘The Southern Africa Crisis’, pp.A3–A32, Africa Contemporary Record 1977–78, Colin Legum (editor), Rex Collings, 1978

  39 Dan van der Vat, The Times, 19/11/1977

  40 Phyllis Johnson and David Martin (editors), Frontline Southern Africa, p.284, Ryan Publishing, 1989

  41 The Economist, 9/04/1977

  Part III The 1980s: Basket Case?

  Chapter Twenty-Four Introduction to the Decade: The OAU Tries to Cope

  1 For a comprehensive examination of the refugee problem in Africa during the 1980s, see Nicholas van Hear, ‘Refugees and Displaced People in Africa’, pp.A47–A58, Africa Contemporary Record, vol. 22 1989–1990, Africana Publishing Company, 1995

  2 Basil Davidson, ‘Africa in Historical Perspective’, Africa South of the Sahara 198
9, p.15, Europa Publications Ltd, 1988

  3 Colin Legum, ‘The Organisation of African Unity, 1989 to Mid-1990: The End of a Disappointing Decade’, p.A23, Africa Contemporary Record 1989–90, Marion E. Doro (editor), African Publishing Company, 1995

  Chapter Twenty-Five The Arab North

  1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, International Herald Tribune, 24/07/1989

  2 See Malise Ruthven, ‘Islamic Politics in the Middle East’ pp.136–47, The Middle East and North Africa 1986, Europa Publications Limited, 1985

  3 Michael Field, Inside the Arab World, p.126, John Murray, 1994

  4 Field, op. cit., p.130

  5 ‘The Libyan Problem’, US Department of State Bulletin, October 1983, pp.71–8 (US Government Publications)

  6 ‘Libya: US Economic Measures’, US Department of State Bulletin, June 1982, Department of State, 10 November 1982

  7 See Guy Arnold, Wars in the Third World since 1945 (2nd edition), pp.192–202, Cassell, 1995

  8 FBIS 2 September 1983

  9 Special Report No. 138, Libya under Qadhafi: A Pattern of Aggression, January 1986, US Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington DC

  10 David Blundy and Andrew Lycett, Qadhafi and the Libyan Revolution, p.186, Corgi Books, 1988

  11 Keesing’s Record of World Events, June 1991

  12 ‘The Libyan Problem’, US Department of State Bulletin, October 1983, p.72, US Government Publications

  Chapter Twenty-Six The Horn: Continuous Warfare

  1 Musaddag Ahmed El haj Ali, ‘The Redivision of the Southern Sudan’, p.237, in Decentralisation in Sudan, editor Al-Agab al-Teraifi, Graduate College Publications No. 20, University of Khartoum, 1987

  2 ‘The Redivision of the Southern Region: Why it must be Rejected?’ (Nile Printing Press), pp.12–13, Solidarity Committee of the 4th National Congress

  3 Hilary Ng’weno, ‘Human Tragedy in Sudan’, Newsweek, 02/07/1984

  4 New York Times, 07/04/1985

  5 Africa Confidential, vol. 26, No. 8, 10/04/1985

  6 Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, p.256, Touchstone Books, 1997

  7 Huntington, op. cit., p.275

  8 Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars, p.xvii, James Currey, 2003

  9 Johnson, op. cit., pp.29–30

  10 Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, Centre of Development Studies, University of Leeds, Eritrea Food and Agricultural Production Assessment Study Final Report, p.40, University of Leeds, 1988

  11 D. Willis, The Christian Science Monitor, 13/09/1984

  12 See Tesfatsion Medhanie, Eritrea: Dynamics of a National Question, pp.224–5, for the story of the Falashas, B. R. Grunner, Amsterdam, 1986

  13 Medhanie, op. cit., p.237

  14 David Pool, From Guerrillas to Government, p.147, James Currey, 2001

  15 See Chester Crocker, ‘The Quest for an Africa Policy’, The Washington Review of Strategic and International Studies, Washington Quarterly, vol. 1, No. 2, April 1978, p.73

  16 See Donald Zagoria, ‘Into the Breach: New Soviet alliances in the 3rd World’, Foreign Affairs, Spring 1979, p.750

  17 Medhanie, op. cit., p.134

  18 Chester Crocker, ‘Africa Policy in the 1980’s’, Washington Quarterly, vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1980), p.74

  19 Medhanie, op. cit., p.129

  20 New York Times, 25/10/1985

  21 Pool, op. cit., p.157

  22 ‘A Test in Africa for Reagan’s Clout’, Business Week (New York), p.99, 02/02/1981

  23 Scott Peterson, Me Against My Brother, p.13, Routledge, 2000

  24 Peterson, op. cit., p.16

  Chapter Twenty-Seven West Africa: Nigeria and Ghana

  1 Alan Rake, Who’s Who in Africa, pp.257–8, Scarecrow Press, 1992

  2 Rake, op. cit., p.239

  3 See Olusegun Obasanjo and Akin Mabogunje (editors), Elements of Development, Africa Leadership Forum, 1991

  4 Obasanjo, op. cit., p.95

  5 Obasanjo, op. cit., p.139

  6 Rotimi Suberu, ‘Integration and Disintegration in the Nigeria Federation’, p.92, in Regionalism in Africa Integration and Disintegration, Daniel C. Bach (editor), James Currey, 1999

  7 Obasanjo, op. cit., pp.9–16

  8 Rake, op. cit., pp.129–31

  9 Kevin Shillington, Ghana and the Rawlings Factor, p.80, Macmillan, 1992

  10 Shillington, op. cit., p.107

  11 Shillington, op. cit., p.110

  12 Shillington, op. cit., p.114

  13 Shillington, op. cit., p.148

  14 Fiona Mackenzie, ‘Introduction’, in Development from Within. Survival in Rural Africa, D. R. Fraser Taylor and Fiona Mackenzie (editors), p.11, Routledge, 1992

  15 People’s Daily Graphic, March 1987

  16 Jerry Rawlings, ‘Accountability Not Negotiable’, Accra: Information Services Department, 1989

  17 Africa Confidential, ‘Ghana: Time is Running Out for Rawlings’, pp.4–5, 20 October 1989

  18 See Africa Contemporary Record, vol. XXII, 1989–90, ‘Ghana’, p.B50, Marion E. Doro, editor, and Colin Legum, consulting editor, Africana Publishing Company, 1995

  19 Shillington, op. cit., p.125

  Chapter Twenty-Eight East and Equatorial Africa

  1 Alan Rake, Who’s Who in Africa, p.366, Scarecrow Press, 1992

  2 Rake, op. cit., p.385

  3 Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers, pp.144–5, James Currey, 2001

  4 Mamdani, op. cit., p.147

  5 Mamdani op. cit., p.155

  6 Rake, op. cit., p.56

  7 Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo, p.185, Zed Books, 2002

  8 Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Congo-Paris Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law, p.4, James Currey, 2000

  Chapter Twenty-Nine Endgame in Southern Africa

  1 See Joseph Hanlon, Beggar Your Neighbours, p.19, James Currey, 1986

  2 Hanlon, op. cit., p.8

  3 Hanlon, op. cit., p.1

  4 Eschel Rhoodie, The Real Information Scandal, Orbis SA (Pty) Ltd, 1983

  5 Phyllis Johnson and David Martin (editors), Destructive Engagement, p.67, Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1986

  6 Johnson and Martin, op. cit., p.91

  7 The Times, 6/01/1984

  8 Financial Times, 31/01/1986

  9 Tony Hodges, Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism, p.11, James Currey, 2001

  10 Hodges, op. cit., p.50

  11 Patrick Chabal et al, A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, p.162, Hurst, 2002

  12 Financial Times, 3/09/1981

  13 Anthony Parsons, From Cold War to Hot Peace, p.120, Michael Joseph, 1995

  14 See Malyn Newitt, ‘Mozambique’, p.195, in Chabal, op. cit., Hurst 2002

  15 Hanlon, op. cit., p.145

  16 Americo Magain, President Mozambican Chamber of Commerce, quoted in Noticias, Maputo, 10/07/1984

  17 Chabal, op. cit., p.119

  18 New York Times, 13/04/1982

  19 Susanna Smith, Front Line Africa: the Right to a Future, pp.259–60, OXFAM, 1990

  20 For a detailed analysis of the South African mining industry see Laurie Flynn, Studded with Diamonds and Paved with Gold, Bloomsbury, 1992

  21 Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa, p.240, Yale University Press, 1990

  22 Guardian, 24/08/1985

  23 Robin Cohen, Endgame in South Africa, p.66, Africa World Press Inc., 1988

  24 Citizen, 7/06/1984

  25 Mats Lundahl and Lena Moritz, ‘The Quest for Equity in South Africa – Redistribution and Growth’ in Bertil Oden, The South African Tripod, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 1994

  26 Frank Welsh, A History of South Africa, p.479, Harper Collins, 1998

  27 Welsh, op. cit., p.224

  28 Smith, op. cit., p.270 et seq.

  29 Plenary Session, British Council of Churches, London, 28/02/1989

  30 Interview with Beeld, 29/11/1989

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nbsp; 31 Hanlon, op. cit., p.24

  32 Kevin Danaher, ‘The Political Economy of US Policy toward South Africa’ [Ph.D. disc., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982], 5.

  33 Allister Sparks, The Mind of South Africa, p.332, Heinemann, 1990

  34 Sparks, op. cit., p.337

  35 Sparks, op. cit., p.348

  36 Sparks, op. cit., p.352

  37 Thompson, op. cit., p.234

  38 S. van der Merwe, ‘And what about the black people?’ 1985 Pretoria, Information Service of the National Party

  39 Bertil Oden, op. cit., pp.60/61

  40 Alex Davidson and Pen Strand, ‘The Path to Democracy – A Background to the Constitutional Negotiations in South Africa’, in Oden, op. cit., p.72

  41 Allan A. Boesak, If This is Treason I am Guilty, pp.13, 26, 131, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986

  42 Sparks, op. cit., p.271

  43 South African whites who qualified for foreign nationality:

  Britain 800,000

  Portugal 500,000

  Israel 119,000

  Germany 100,000

  Italy 50,000

  Netherlands 40,000

  Belgium 25,000

  US 17,000

  Other 37,000

  44 Welsh, op. cit., p.489

  45 Sparks, op. cit., p.378

  Chapter Thirty Development Standstill

  1 The World Bank, Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agenda for Action, p.9, World Bank

  2 Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims become Killers, pp.152–3, James Currey, 2001

  3 See Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy, p.126, Vintage, 1991

  4 Patrick Chabal et al, A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, p.90, Hurst, 2002

  5 Chabal, op. cit., p.89

  6 Chabal, op. cit., p.90

  7 The World Bank Annual Report 1983

  8 The World Bank Annual Report 1984, p.79

  9 The World Bank Annual Report 1984, p.82

  10 The World Bank Annual Report 1985, p.88

  11 Jacob Songsore, ‘The Cooperative Credit Union Movement in North-Western Ghana’, quoted in Development from Within: Survival in Rural Africa, p.83., D. R. Taylor-Fraser and Fiona Mackenzie (editors), Routledge, 1992

  12 The World Bank Annual Report 1986, p.83

  13 World Development Report 1986, pp.77–78

  14 World Food Report 1986, FAO

  15 Financing Adjustment with Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 1986–90, p.5, The World Bank, 1986

  16 The World Bank, op. cit., p.11

  17 The World Bank Annual Report 1989, p.106

  18 The World Bank Annual Report 1990, p.112

  19 Olusegun Obasanjo and Akin Mabogunje (editors), Elements of Development, ‘Background note on the Africa Leadership Forum’, p.230, Africa Leadership Forum, 1991

 

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