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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | South Africa to the Future: Challenges of African Politics |
Author: | Ba'Nikongo, Nikongo |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Issue |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 11-15 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | regional security Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166239 |
Abstract: | Caught between a past of inefficiency and a present of insufficiency, Africa's future looks bleak. Few nations in sub-Saharan Africa today are free of turmoil, unease or open warfare, and, more importantly, Africans have not yet found meaningful ways of dealing with their national and international conflicts. Nonetheless, the author believes there is hope for a revived Africa, and that it is to be found in the 'new South Africa'. The challenge for the 'new South Africa' is to create for the first time in sub-Saharan Africa a militarily powerful State, an African force, capable of meeting the demands of internal and external pressures and of dealing effectively with African problems. The 'new South Africa' has the potential to emerge as a peacekeeper where collective African forces and multilateral arrangements have to date failed. To this end the 'new South Africa' must be able and willing to maintain itself as a significant military power, move rapidly to Africanize its forces at every level of operations, advance the process of inter-African alliance building in the area of common defence and demonstrate leadership in ongoing African conflicts. In this respect the seeming willingness of the 'new South Africa' to undermine its military capability, particularly its nuclear forces, is cause for concern. Note, ref. |