ABSTRACT
We are now almost at the end of our analytical journey through Southern Africa and the time has come to draw what conclusions we may. However, we must throughout bear in mind the scope of the political changes that have occurred in the region in the last four decades and particularly in the last two. The joke common in the airline industry in the 1960s and 1970s that on arrival at any of the Southern African capitals passengers should be advised to put back their watches 50 years is no longer apt.
