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Article: Zambia and the foreign policy of alienation.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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The response by President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia to President Mandela of South Africa's opening speech at September's Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting in Blantyre, Malawi, once more highlighted Chiluba as a head of state whose understanding of the basic realities of international politics is apparently manifestly weak and poorly informed. This is in stark contrast to the man whom he so intemperately attacked by allusion. President Mandela's message had been relatively simple: as an organisation, SADC under Mandela's chairmanship would no longer be prepared to tolerate those governments whose domestic behaviour and posturing run ...