South African economic interests in the South Atlantic Ocean

Abstract

Our paper addresses itself to the South Afrícan economic: interests in the South Atlantic Ocean. It concentrates on the South African economic interests in the Southern African and beyond the region throughout the African continent. It addresses itself also to factors characterising the South African economy. This is important for it enables us to understand why South Africa has made Soúthern Africa its concentrated field in advancing, maintaining and expanding its economic interests externally. South Africa's position on the South-South relations is characterised by its active participation in calling for restructuring of the international economic system, international trade, the United Nations particulalry its Security Council for the countries of the South to be permanent members of the Security Council, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, changing the position of Africa within the international division of labour and the international system and demanding that the North opens its markets for their penetration by the manufactured products of the South...