Cooperation and competition : South Africa and southern Rhodesia during and after the Second World War

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dc.contributor.author Gwande, Victor Muchineripi
dc.contributor.author Mlombo, Abraham
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-03T09:53:39Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-03T09:53:39Z
dc.date.issued 2023-08
dc.description.abstract This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two neighbours. For Southern Rhodesia, which relied mainly on imported manufactured goods from the United Kingdom, the war induced shortages resulting in huge domestic demand. Shortages stimulated calls for local industry to fill the vacuum. Consequently, an import substitution industrialisation (ISI) drive developed. In addition to the ISI, South Africa, which had a comparatively established secondary industry by the time the war broke out, increasingly became an essential source for Southern Rhodesian imports. This, however, was not without its challenges. Southern Rhodesia’s economic interest groups often raised complaints against South Africa’s economic competition and its threat to the Rhodesian economy. Nonetheless, Pretoria and Salisbury worked closely and found ways to ease the challenges. By 1948, the end date of the paper, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa’s relationship had resulted in the signing of a Customs Union Agreement. Thus, the article demonstrates, thematically and chronologically, that relations between the two countries evolved through cooperation and competition during the Second World War until the onset of Apartheid in South Africa and the Customs Agreement. The paper relies on primary material from the Zimbabwean and South African archives comprised of correspondences of Customs Agreements negotiations, economic policies and relations, and Parliamentary debates. en_US
dc.description.department Historical and Heritage Studies en_US
dc.description.librarian hj2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg None en_US
dc.description.uri http://brill.com/jamh en_US
dc.identifier.citation Gwande, V.M. & Mlombo, A. 2023, 'Cooperation and competition : South Africa and southern Rhodesia during and after the Second World War', Journal of African Military History, vol. 7, nos. 1-2, pp. 76-98, doi : 10.1163/24680966-bja10018. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2468-0958 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2468-0966 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1163/24680966-bja10018
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95432
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Brill Academic Publishers en_US
dc.rights © V.M. Gwande and A. Mlombo, 2023. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV. en_US
dc.subject Second World War en_US
dc.subject South Africa (SA) en_US
dc.subject Southern Rhodesia en_US
dc.subject Cooperation en_US
dc.subject Competition en_US
dc.title Cooperation and competition : South Africa and southern Rhodesia during and after the Second World War en_US
dc.type Postprint Article en_US


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