ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an appropriate African as well as international response which bring about true peace and security in Southern Africa. The issue of the legal framework for the achievement of substantial independence following post-colonial independence should become as stridently advocated as was the initial demand for the ending of colonialism. The British diplomatic initiative was combined with Khodesian and South African military escalation and threats of an "internal settlement" with a collaborating black party. Speculation as to the "legislative" ambitions of the South African-Western axis in relation to African liberation seems to be confirmed in the most concrete and articulate manner by the international agreement made between South Africa and Mozambique in March 1984: the Nkomati Accord. There is a fundamental fascination for an African international lawyer in the contemplation of the Nkomati Accord. Another area of international law which appears in jeopardy is the law relating to refugees.
