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...support for guerrilla movements using one another's territory as bases. Since then, antiapartheid militants have been discouraged in Mozambique. Now South Africa has come up with a plan for keeping its part of the bargain. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha said that the Mozambican government and its prime adversary, the anti-Communist Mozambique National Resistance movement, have agreed to a South Africa-sponsored cease-fire proposal. The plan calls for the M.N.R. to recognize President Samora Machel's regime...
Though covert South African support for the M.N.R. is expected to end, the group is not likely to disband. Evo Fernandes, leader of the M.N.R.'s delegation to the cease-fire talks, declared that the rebels "will not accept the presence of South African troops on Mozambican territory." As for the Machel government, he added, "the war continues, and we may have to escalate our actions...
With hard currency in short supply, black markets are booming. In Marxist Mozambique, drivers of the People's Taxi Service will happily switch off their meters and cruise all day for payment in dollars. No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42. "To Africa's sickness, pestilence and disease, add corruption," says Senegal's President Abdou Diouf. "It is endemic to this continent...
News of the violence has hurt Mugabe's efforts to attract foreign investments. Twice in the past month, guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Marxist government of neighboring Mozambique blew up a pipeline that fed essential supplies of oil to Zimbabwe from the Mozambican port city of Beira. As a result, streets and highways in Zimbabwe are now largely deserted, many workers stay home, and motorists who insist on filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from...
South Africa also clashed with these same two countries last week, but rather more violently, sending bombers deep into Angola to attack Namibian rebel bases and engaging in its second border clash in a week with Mozambican troops. Despite sympathy between the new U.S. government and South Africa on a number of issues, the Reagan Administration indicated it is not ready to forge closer ties with Pretoria. It emphasized last week that four South African military officials, whose visits to the U.S. have long been severely restricted, had been given visas "inadvertently" for a trip they made to Washington this...