UID:
kobvindex_DGP388936134
Format:
Kt., Tab., Lit., Lit.Hinw.
ISBN:
0813010691
Content:
The Fifth Party Congress, held in July 1989 by Mozambique's ruling party Frelimo, marked a major turning point in the country's political history. National consensus and unity replaced class struggle and Marxism-Leninism as the dominant political idioms. The country's socialist project came to an abrupt halt. This paper places this cevelopment within a broader historical and regional perspective. At the root of the nation's problems are an inherited colonial economy excessively dependent on South Africa (c. 1900-1975); a set of misguided or poorly implemented State and party policies (1975-1986). After the death of president Machel, Joaquim Chissano came to power in November 1986. Despite his popularity, the deteriorating economic situation left him little space in which to manoeuvre. Nevertheless, he has pursued a vigorous, if controversial, policy to revitalize the economy, end the war, and bring the nation together. He implemented the IMF-World Bank structural adjustment programme known in Mozambique as the PRE and, after Frelimo's failure to eliminate Renamo, he began, in 1988, to prepare his war-torn country for a political solution in which Renamo forces would be reintegrated into the country. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden)
In:
Apartheid unravels, Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1991, , Seite 182-212, 0813010691
In:
pages:182-212
Language:
English
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