As relações políticas entre Moçambique e Africa do Sul após o Acordo de Nkomati

Abstract

The Political Relations between Mozambique and South Africa after the Nkomati Agreement, analyses the ways in which these countries, which had different political systems, coexisted. On the one hand Socialist Mozambique and on the other Apartheid and Capitalist South Africa. After the independence of Mozambique and Angola, Portugal left two minority regimes without protection. Mozambique's socialist and anti-colonialist position made relations with the Apartheid regime and that of Ian Smith more complicated. In retaliation, in 1976, Southern Rhodesia created and supported Renamo, a rebel force that fought Frelimo for 16 years. After the fall of Ian Smith in 1980, South Africa took over Renamo, which continued the war in Mozambique. In March 1984, the two countries signed the Nkomati Agreement on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness, which stipulated that South Africa would no longer support Renamo, and Mozambique would no longer accommodate the ANC in its country. The agreement failed, and in the period from 1984 to 1989, the South African military helped Renamo to draw up plans and economic targets to be shot down, and chose the HCB electricity transmission lines, railways and roads to weaken Mozambique. Relations between the two countries improved from 1990, with the end of the East-West confrontation, and there was a revival of the agreement, which also culminated in the fall of Apartheid and the pacification of Mozambique in 1992. During this period, other agreements were signed to establish joint ventures between companies from the two countries. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)