ABSTRACT
The inherited economy was characterised by the following three basic features:
(1) The economic integration within the Southern African sub-system under the domination of South African capitalism led to a situation in which Mozambique became to a large extent a service economy dependent upon the provision of transit transport services (ports and railways) for the South African and (then) Rhodesian economies as well as of the supply of migrant labour to the South African mining sector and, to a lesser extent, to South African and Rhodesian settler farms.
