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A ZIDS conference paper on peace and security in post- apartheid Southern Africa. The seminar on peace and security in the Southern Africa region was held 11-13 March 1992 ; Currently, there are two schools of thought about the region in the post-apartheid era. The first one is an old thesis. It suggests that although SA would no longer pose a military threat as it did before De Klerk came to power, its considerable superiority (technological, etc.) will continue to be a source of economic destabilisation. Thus, whichever group comes to power, SADCC states will continue to be vulnerable. SA will always seek to utilise its powerful economic leverages to suggest that, although formal (or institutional) apartheid as we have known it is officially dead, the region will not escape economic apartheid. There is merit to the above statement. However, it ignores one essential point: that the objectives, environment and factors that made SA act in the way it did have slowly been changing. It follows therefore that new relationships between SA and its neighbours at the bilateral and collective levels will emerge (where they have not yet started to shape up). True, SA's hegemonic strengths and powers are still in place. But their presence need not be a source of instability for SADCC or oppression of its neighbours (see also Nyong'o, 1990). During the Total Strategy Era, SA deployed its superiority in all its forms as an instrument of coercion. This economic superiority could now be put to better use developing the region. Indications are that SA is committed to working with its neighbours on an equal footing (refer to Chingambo, 1992).

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Part I The Authority of the State" -- "Introduction: 'I hate your scary truth'" -- "1 'We must unwaveringly persist in … politicians running newspapers'" -- "2 'Egyptians will not again tolerate dictatorship'" -- "3 'You saw it on television? That means they are lying!'" -- "4 Three degrees of despotism" -- "i The New Thing" -- "ii 'I am having it cut off right away, sir!'" -- "iii 'We can't criticize our own'" -- "Part II The Authority of the Market" -- "Introduction: 'Without reliability, one cannot be a journalist'" -- "5 'We are in the advertising business'" -- "6 'We need a prime minister, not a Trappist monk'" -- "7 'Some of the stories … were more or less true'" -- "8 In the market, but free?" -- "i 'The most important story ... is the one that cannot be covered'" -- "ii 'We did not grasp what was happening'" -- "iii 'In East Asia … journalists are part of the power structure'" -- "iv 'When journalists come to Israel they leave behind their professional tools'" -- "9 'There is no model for newspapers'" -- "10 'We've got the ability to go directly … to the people'" -- "Part III Freedom" -- "Introduction: 'Journalism's first obligation is to the truth'" -- "11 Roads to freedom" -- "i 'Your work has always been essential'" -- "ii 'The BBC … has a liberal bias'" -- "iii 'Nous sommes un journal'" -- "iv 'The Internet is a threat to human civilization'" -- "Conclusion: This happened" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Fictions Before Facts; 2. Losing and Finding the Plot; 3. Down with the State and its Servile Hacks!; 4. The Breaking of Freedom's Back?; 5. Le jour de guerre est arrivé; Conclusion; Notes; Back cover