Southern Africa and the West in the Post-Nkomati Period

At the beginning of their lucid analysis of the potential and dynamics of the conflict in South Africa, John Saul and Stephen Gelb qualify the present crisis as structural or 'organic' rather than merely 'conjunctural'.1 This implies, so the authors contend, that the state, in an attempt to manage and finally resolve the crisis cannot — as in the case of the conjunctural — resort to reactive, defensive measures of adjustment, but is forced to design and implement formative efforts: A new balance of forces, the emergence of new elements, the attempt to put together a 'new historical' bloc, new political configurations and philosophies, a profound restructuring of the state and ideological discourse ... new programmes and policies ... a new sort of 'settlement' within certain limits2 have to be constructed, which supersede and replace previous 'forces', 'configurations' and 'programmes'. From this perspective Botha's reforms as well as his 'Total National Strategy' are far from cosmetic and can be seen as formative efforts, which, on the one hand have considerably eroded the rationale and practise of apartheid, without, on the other, yielding to the political demands of the Black majority.KeywordsInternational Monetary FundPresent PolicySecurity CooperationNatural AllyConstructive EngagementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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