ABSTRACT
The Nkomati Accord was forced on the government of Mozambique by the overwhelming pressure of innumerable murderous attacks from South African forces and the South African surrogates, combined with 'mediation' and 'assurances' from American and British diplomats and conditional promises from the South Africans. Symptomatic of the potential for renewal and redirection in South Africa is its indigenous version of "liberation theology". The future of South and Southern Africa is of profound concern not only to their citizens but also to the rest of Africa and the world. Southern Africa as regional studies and as regional system will never be the same again. If the Portuguese coup of 1974 constituted one turning point in the regional affairs then the mid-1980s - from Nkomati-type Accords and States of Emergency to triple attacks and sanctions debates - surely constitute another.
