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For South Africa it was obvious that the April 1974 coup in Lisbon would pave the way to the independence of the Portuguese colonies. Pretoria moved quickly to ensure that an independent Mozambique would not pose a threat to the apartheid regime.
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David Martin and Phyllis Johnson, The Struggle for Zimbabwe (London: Faber and Faber, 1981) pp. 125–157, and Ian Smith, op. cit., pp. 159–210.
William Minter, Apartheid’s Contras ( London: Zed Books, 1994 ) p. 265.
Theodorico de Sacadura Botte, Memórias e Autobiografia, (Maputo:1985/86) Vol. 3, pp. 209–214.
Lewis Carroll and W.S. Gilbert, Why help the enemy?, To The Point, 1 July 1977, pp. 6–9.
Vladimir Shubin, ANC: a View from Moscow ( Belville: Mayibuye Books UWC, 1999 ), p. 197.
Domingos Arouca, Message to Mozambicans and friends of Mozambique, Fumo-Boletim Informativo, December 1980, p. 3.
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Cabrita, J.M. (2000). South Africa Backs Renamo. In: Mozambique. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977385_34
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