Challenge: Southern Africa Within The African Revolutionary Context (1989) By Al J. Venter
 
Southern Africa is in a state of political flux. The "necklace" is a ghastly reality to many people living there. So are nightly bloodlettings in many South African townships. Political forces of a variety of hues, from the far left to the entrenched right seek their own solutions to problems that have bedeviled Africa for decades. Sad to say, there is no clear solution in sight, even though the pundits regularly predict anything from a breakthrough to a total collapse. The extremely vocal South African community in voluntary or involuntary exile in London, Lusaka, Harare, New York and elsewhere have been maintaining for years that change in the country is "imminent". The truth is that Southern Africa - and all its composite parts, black or white - is not likely to change its character radically in any significant way. That some form of change must ultimately come, there is no doubt. A glimpse as to what form it will take will perhaps be provided by recent history, of which Africa in this era is making more than enough. Events in other parts of this volatile continent may supply part of the answer. What happened during the sixties and seventies in countries as diverse as Angola, Rhodesia, Algeria, Kenya, Mozambique and elsewhere may shed some rays of light on forthcoming events in Southern Africa. Many of the lessons learnt during the demise of Rhodesia are still applicable to the white South now. Some of the military events in the former Portuguese colonies are also instructive. So is a comparison between South Africa today and French Algeria yesterday.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
526 pages
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