ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Sweden's foreign policy toward South Africa in its entirety, there are, nevertheless, certain works that had examined various aspects of Sweden's dealings with South Africa either in a Southern Africa regional perspective, in a Third World perspective, or in a global context. The majority of these works was published in the 1970s and 1980s, while three of them were all published in 1999. The chapter reviews these works, one is confronted, over and over again, with a recurring theme: the Swedish policy of 'caution' toward South Africa-that is, Sweden severely condemned the policies of Apartheid, but it was not willing to suffer a serious economic loss in its dealings with South Africa. Nils Andren, therefore, argued that Sweden's official activity in relation to South Africa primarily consisted of public statements against the Apartheid system and support for United Nation (UN) recommendations against that system.
