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Article: SOUTHERN AFRICA IN THE COLD WAR.(post World War II southern Africa)
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- February 1, 1999
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J.E. Spence considers the interface between ideological and geopolitical factors in the struggle for supremacy in Southern Africa
At the end of the Second World War the southern African region, with the major exception of the Union of South Africa, was firmly under colonial rule. Britain retained responsibility for the three High Commission territories -- Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland -- and exercised formal control over self-governing Rhodesia's constitutional development and external affairs. Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, too, were British colonies while Portugal ruled Angola and Mozambique. South-West Africa (the status of which was in dispute with ...