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We're talking about ten years of Souilhern Africa Report Not that we've won any National Maga zine Awards here in Can ada. We've never been cited in the Toronto Globe and Mail's prestigious "Maga zines" overview. Nor have we ever had our existence noted by such Globe pun dits as Robert Fulford or Rick Salutin. However, we do seem to have a loyal, to judge by renewal rates, and even growing (albeit by tens and twenties rather than hundreds and thousands) readership, both in Can ada and abroad. Word of mouth, and the occasional letter, also tells us that both the aesthetic and political quality of what we've been doing remains at an accept able level. According to our readers, we've managed to weather the transition from the heady days of libera tion movements and anti 'apartheid struggle in south ern Africa to the present moment of greyer and more sobering realities in a rea sonably coivincing and in teresting manner. Certainly the enterprise continues to convince and interest us. The eaitorial collective still sports some of the same wizened veterans who helped launch our endeav ours a decade ago, for exam ple. And just enough young blood has since joined the magazine team to suggest that southern Africa sup port work is not merely an Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1985 agenda for geriatrics. True, we've come close to los- REPORT july 199.5 Southern Africa REPORT july 1995 .r1-51 0________0_ ing our zest for the enterprise from that are being forged between Cana We hope, too, that you'll forgive time to time. This spring we went dians and southern Africans in the such slightly self-indulgent mid through some soul-searchirg when post-apartheid period. Political pur summer musings on the occasion of we questioned, quite fundamentally pose aplenty, then. As for finances, our tenth anni-versary. Your reward, and in concert with others beyond that's another question. In this re in the rest of the magazine, is some the working group itself, the present gard, we hope that any of you read of the same kind of strong stuff on state of our finances, of our energy ing this issue will subscribe, if you southern Africa that you've become level, and, not least, of our sense of don't do so already, and will also accustomed to. Front and centre are political purpose. get any institution you have access pieces by Roger Southall and Peter to (your library, for example) to sub Vale on some key aspects of South Political purpose? No problem, scribe as well. As hinted above, even Africa's foreign policy-making, part once we stopped to think about it. the odd five or ten new subscrip of our on-going effort to determine Who can doubt, as we've had oc tions is enough to revive our ener what's really new about the "new casion to emphasize in previous ed gies when they start to flag. We'd South Africa." Not enough, Vale at itorials in these pages, that south also be further energized if readers least seems to suggest, and this is an ern Africa remains an instructive were to take rather more active own c pinion shared by Patrick Bond in microcosm of much of what ails ership of the magazine. Certainly, these pages as he critiques an earlier the world, even if globally inflicted we'd welcome any advice you might article by our own Barry Pinsky on structural adjustment packages and have about the substance of what the ANC's housing strategy. Look, locally-generated despots have now we're doing: subjects to be cov too, for some illumination from replaced desiccated colonialisms and ered, authors to be solicited, lines of Gerry Mar6 of the sinister doings apartheid autocrats as the main in analysis to be explored. And how that continue to unfold in KwaZulu dices of regional blight? Nor should about a few more "public" letters Natal. And, from Alexander Costy, we doubt that southern Africans the more argumentative the better a nice spin on the question of in the present issue Marlea Clarke to enliven our pages and help push Mozambican NGOs and the state tells us of two women who well qual us all a step forward in our think of "civil society" in that country. ify as shining examples - will con ing. Help us, in short, to give you A good review, too, from long-time tinue to give us all lessons in what ten more years of something other contributor, Bruce Kidd, reflecting it means to fight back. And, as wise not easy to come by: pertinent back on the anti-apartheid struggle our shared vulnerability, North and and politically pretty correct writ on the sporting front. And wait 'til South, to the vagaries of footloose ing on something - we suspect you'll you see what we've got lined up for global capital becomes ever more ap agree- even more important than you in volume 11, number one. Yes, parent, there is also a lot to be the O.J. Simpson trial! we really are going to do our first learned from the new kinds of ties decade all over again. Africa REPORT july 1995199.5 Southern Africa REPORT Regional Security The 'New Security' in Southern Africa BY ROGER SOUTHALL defines the region has been the con resentatives of other parties, foreign viction that relations between South embassies and academia. Roger Southall is Professor of Politics at Rhodes University. Africa and its neighbours will now Inevitably, however, the restruc be based on mutual trust in a shared turing of regional relations is not An era of regeneration and inter project of regional peace and devel problem free. SADC is having to state cooperation throughout the opment. redefine its SADCC-inherited mis Southern African region seems pos The arrival of the new govern sion: whilst regional countries are sible with the fall cf apartheid, the looking to South Africa's industrial democratization prbcess that has ment in Pretoria headed by Pres ident Nelson Mandela has been economy to jump-start the regional taken place throughout the region, economy, they are no more keen to and the winding down of the exter viewed as synonymous not only with legitimate government but also with day to become dependent upon a re nally fuelled civil conflicts in An gional hegemon than they were be gola and Mozambique. Hopes for the birth of a new moral order. This perspective has drawn convic fore. This poses problems in for such a period of renewal have been mulating a policy for manufactur symbolized and institutionalized by tion from a series of ANC policy statements made both before and ing that will both attract foreign in the transformation of the old South vestment (which will flow mostly to ern African Development Coordinat after the election. The most pro grammatic of these was the ANC's South Africa) and narrow regional ing Conference (SADCC) into the disparities. Yet some of the most new Southern African Development commitment, elaborated in October 1993, to a foreign policy future that dramatic developments are occur Community (SADC), launched in would make central a preoccupation ring in the security sphere - im 1994 with the new, post-apartheid with human rights, the promotion portant above all for guaranteeing South Africa at its heart. of democracy worldwide, respect for human rights - where there is a The background to this is well international law, a striving for in quite remarkable willingness of for known: how apartheid South Africa ternational peace, and commitment mer enemies within regional military tried to dominate the region by to the best interests of Africa gener and intelligence networks to work to drawing its most immediately de ally and of the Southern African re gether towards a shared conception pendent neighbours into a Constel gion in particular.