Abstract
M.A.
This study focuses its attention on the strategies of the
OAU in their determined bid to isolate South Africa from
the international community. This study attempts to show
how and why the African states tried to isolate South
Africa. This selection is done in order to portray the
special role the African states played in the ostracism of
South Africa from the community of nations. The objective
is to analyse the strategies and the role of Africa,
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individually and collectively, and to demonstrate the
extent to which they were committed to the implementation
of this isolation campaign. This study will try to give, as far as possible, a balanced
perspective of the issues surrounding Africa's campaign of
isolation. The present study is, therefore, a serious
attempt at a study of that campaign. In this connection,
attention will also be focused on questions such as:
What motivated the OAU to interact in the campaign to
isolate South Africa?
What internal factors determined Africa's strategies,
successes and failures?
What role did the frontline states play in the
isolation campaign?
Why did Mozambique and South Africa conclude the
Nkomati Agreement in 1984? Was this agreement a
deviation of the principles of isolation?
What was the reaction of the OAU to the -signing of
this agreement?
To what extent had the isolation campaign succeeded
from Africa's point of view?