dc.contributor.author | Stemmet, Jan-ad | |
dc.contributor.author | Senekal, Burgert A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-15T10:10:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-15T10:10:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Stemmet, J. & Senekal, B.A. 2013. Threats of Communist expansion in Apartheid South Africa: NP claims versus CIA intelligence perspectives in the years 1960 to 1990. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 68:99-119, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10458 | |
dc.description.abstract | There is a popular perception that the threat of Soviet expansionism
during the time of South Africa’s Border War (1966-1989) was a fabrication
by the National Party government to motivate young men to fight to
maintain Apartheid as the main political ideology. This perception is voiced
by numerous authors of “grensliteratuur”, as well as some historians, e.g.
Baines and Drewett. The claim of the National Party was that the Soviet
Union attempted to expand its political influence in South Africa in order
to obtain control over South Africa’s mineral resources and the country’s
strategically located shipping routes and harbours. This article uses declassified
CIA intelligence reports to engage with both claims, and asks: Was Soviet/
Communist expansion in South Africa true or a fabrication? The finding is
that the CIA shared Botha and Malan’s views, and since CIA reports – unlike
ministerial speeches – were not intended for wide circulation, they cannot be
accused of serving propaganda purposes. The conclusion is therefore that the
declassified documents indicate that the NP Goverments of Malan and his
successors agreed with the CIA, and therefore the claim of a Soviet threat in
Namibia and Angola cannot be labelled an NP fabrication. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | PW Botha | en_US |
dc.subject | Border War | en_US |
dc.subject | Cold War | en_US |
dc.subject | USSR | en_US |
dc.subject | Soviet Union | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Namibia | en_US |
dc.subject | Angola | en_US |
dc.subject | Communism | en_US |
dc.title | Threats of Communist expansion in Apartheid South Africa: NP claims versus CIA intelligence perspectives in the years 1960 to 1990. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |