ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the characterization of the present epoch is important in understanding the efforts in Southern Africa to wage a struggle for economic self-determination through the formation of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADGC) in 1980. The "non-aggression pact" between the Republic of South Africa and the Peoples Republic of Mozambique was signed at the town of Komatipoort on 16 March 1984. The Nkomati Agreement was formulated by the United States as a means to block both the short-term and long-term preconditions for the successful economic cooperation in Southern Africa - that is short term political and economic isolation of racist South. Africa and most important of all, the prevention of the realization of a democratic South Africa. In the short-term perspective, the success of economic cooperation within the context of SADGC has to depend on effective economic and political isolation of the racist controlled Republic of South Africa.
