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By the beginning of 1974 Portuguese power was crumbling in Angola and Mozambique, and in Rhodesia a growing guerrilla war was already sapping that country’s manpower and budget. It was clear that South Africa could no longer count on the surrounding white-ruled territories as an effective and lasting shield against guerrilla assault on Namibia and the Republic.
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For detailed discussion of these negotiations, see David Martin and Phyllis Johnson, The Struggle for Zimbabwe (London: Faber & Faber, 1981), Chs 8 and 10; and
Martin Meredith, The Past Is Another Country (London: Pan, 1980), Ch. 9.
Deon Geldenhuys, The Diplomacy of Isolation: South Africa’s Foreign Policy Making (Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1984), p. 214.
Robert S. Jaster, South Africa’s Narrowing Security Options, Adelphi Paper No. 159 (London: IISS, 1980), p. 31.
South Africa, House of Assembly Debates, 28 February 1973, col. 1697.
South Africa, House of Assembly Debates, 14 June 1977, col. 10122.
Private UN source. For a different view, see Anthony Verrier, The Road to Zimbabwe 1890–1980 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), p. 223.
Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol, Angola in the Front Line (London: Zed, 1983), p. 11.
Robin Hallett, ‘The South African Intervention in Angola, 1975–76’, African Affairs, 77, 308 (July 1978).
F.W. Heimer, The Decolonization Conflict in Angola 1974–76 (Geneva: Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, 1979), p. 70.
For a detailed account of covert US activities in Angola, see John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story (New York: Norton, 1978).
See, for example, Mohammed A. El Khawas, ‘South Africa and the Angolan Conflict’, African Affairs, 77, 308 (1978), pp. 35–46.
Heimer, The Decolonization Conflict, p. 76, citing Gabriel Garçia Marquez, ‘Operaçion Carlota’, Triunfo, 30, 730/731 (1977).
Nicholas Ashford, The Times (London), 30 December 1975.
Robert S. Jaster, ‘South African Defense Strategy and the Growing Influence of the Military’, in William J. Foltz and Henry S. Bienen, Arms and the African: Military Influences in Africa’s International Relations (New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 129.
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Jaster, R.S. (1989). Deteriorating Security and Policy Reappraisal (1974–8). In: The Defence of White Power. Studies in International Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19601-2_5
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