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Chapter 7: the special relationship between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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- Institute for Strategic Studies
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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1. INTRODUCTION
Alphonse Karr's celebrated 19th century adage, "(t)he more things change, the more they are the same", is eminently applicable to South Africa's relations with Zimbabwe and previously Rhodesia. Things have changed profoundly over decades, from the days of Southern Rhodesia's status as a British colony to its inclusion in the ill-fated Central African Federation, thereafter Rhodesia's period of unilaterally declared independence, and eventually the era of an independent Zimbabwe ruled by a black former liberation movement. South Africa too underwent a political metamorphosis over these years, first when the Smuts government made way for the ...