Editorial : The struggle for the state in Southern Africa

Since our last issue a peoples victory has been won in Angola. As we write, the guerilla war in Zimbabwe has been resumed after an abortive, time‐wasting effort to negotiate a deal which could only have led to a neo‐colonial state. Zambia has been at the centre of these two penultimate chapters in the struggle for the liberation of Southern Africa and has also been going through a crisis of economic insolvency and stillborn strategies, which have been both the result and cause of its vacillating Southern African policies.