File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9706, message 136


Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:15:02 +1000
From: Rob Schaap <rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: Re: M-I: UNITA: "particularly vulnerable"


My gut reaction to Lou's post.

Savimbi has proven himself insincere time and again - people just keep
dying.  The MPLA have their chance, and should take it.  It has been UNITA
who have effectively stopped any chance the duly elected MPLA government
have had of rebuilding infrastructure (Angola is quite the most beautiful
place on earth, yet no tourism income.  Some suggest the west of the
country is the richest source of diamonds in Africa, yet no income there
either.  Luanda's infrastructure is periodically damaged by UNITA, and what
is destroyed can not be rebuilt)  Mobutu is gone, and now UNITA must go.

And anyway, there are some impressive lefties in the MPLA.  Together with
Kabila  (about whom there is still nought but conjecture), sympathetic
governments in Namibia and Zimbabwe, and concomitantly emboldened left
elements in South Africa and poor Mozambique, perhaps another wind of
change is in the air?

And can anybody tell us anything about what's going on in Brazzaville?

No wonder the US is discovering Africa with such alacrity ...

Cheers,
Rob.




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