ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the present position of liberation struggles in Southern Africa, their setbacks, and the currently favorable position of the regime in South Africa. It attempts to establish why many liberation struggles have suffered such setbacks since the Independence of Zimbabwe. In 1975, after a costly liberation struggle between Portuguese soldiers and African guerrillas, a military coup in Portugal led to a transfer of power and the liberation of the African colonies. Negotiations with Portuguese coup leaders were based on the strength of the liberation movements, otherwise they would never have succeeded. The Organization of African Unity Liberation Coirroiittee laid a strategy which gave priority to Namibia so as to hasten its path to independence, which would then allow all efforts to be concentrated on the liberation of South Africa. The chapter concludes with prospects for the liberation of Southern Africa.
