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| Title: | UDI and South African Foreign Policy |
| Author: | Hill, Christopher R. |
| Year: | 1969 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 96-105 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe South Africa |
| Subjects: | foreign policy Politics and Government colonialism international relations Inter-African Relations |
| Abbreviation: | UDI=Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
| Abstract: | The main preoccupation of South African policy is Mr. Vorster's so-called 'forward' policy towards black African states: the intention to establish relations of 'friendship' (i.e. extensive trade) and mutual forbearance with as many African states as possible. So South Africa's objective must be to remove at least the immediate causes of tension with Zambia, which are complicated by the Rhodesian situation. This situation leads also to new complications in the United Nations and with the United Kingdom, and perhaps also some rethinking of policy towards Portugal. Most important is that the Rhodesian situation disturbs the Republic's relations with Britain, although on this question British and South African interests coincide. An embarrassment to both countries is the presence of guerrillas, and hence of South African police, in Rhodesia. The Rhodesian situation has forced the South Africans to think even harder than before about their place in Africa. But though it has made more apparent the directions South African foreign policy may take, it has not imposed any fundamental changes upon that policy. |