ABSTRACT
The new Zimbabwean government did fulfil the short-term goals of the Zimbabwean nationalists and the Frontline States: a state that could legally take control of production and a government that was not beholden to South Africa for attaining power. The practical experience of the Frontline States is the political base for the economic co-operation and that base has been broadened to include the other economies in the region: The Frontline States do not envisage the regional economic coordination as exclusive. The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) plan for economic integration clearly enhances the role of the individual state, emphasising the sovereignty of each state in several ways. SADCC is a rejection of the South African Constellation of States but also of the old patterns of economic integration. As SADCC tries to reduce its dependence on South Africa, it increases its need for foreign capital investment.
