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That sad paradox is repeated, indeed intensified, throughout the black nations of the region. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland depend upon Pretoria for all their oil. Lesotho gets all its electricity from South Africa. Almost every export and import of the three countries travels through South Africa. As if that were not enough, Pretoria's official exports within the continent have risen by 40% this year, and promise to reach a record $800 million. Any Western blow against South Africa could amount to a killer blow against many of the so-called frontline states. Warns a South African diplomat in London...
...economic sanctions. In the process you are going to harm job opportunities immensely for 2 million blacks from outside our borders whose wages provide sustenance and upkeep for up to 8 million in Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Malawi...
...several years, white-ruled South Africa has attempted to destabilize some of the black-ruled regimes along its northern borders; on several occasions its forces have made lightning raids on South African dissident groups in nearby Lesotho, Botswana and Mozambique. Last week, in the widest-ranging action yet launched against its neighbors, South Africa's armed forces staged virtually simultaneous attacks in the capital cities of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The targets, according to a subsequent South African announcement, were operational bases and transit facilities of the exiled, outlawed African National Congress, which the government of State President P.W. Botha...
...events in Lesotho demonstrated the economic power South Africa wields in the region--and its willingness to use it. Lesotho is almost entirely dependent on South Africa for food, fuel and jobs. Money sent home by laborers working in South Africa accounts for half of Lesotho's gross national product of $670 million. Even nearby Zimbabwe and Mozambique, which are more developed, are susceptible to South Africa's economic pressures. Zimbabwe, for example, ships about 90% of its trade through South Africa...
...week's end Lesotho had begun to expel the A.N.C. militants. It appealed to the United Nations to help find new sanctuaries for them. Said Lekhanya: "The security of the refugees (in Lesotho) has become precarious." Clampdowns on activists were also rumored to be under way in Botswana and Zimbabwe...