South Africa’s foreign policy posture has undergone metamorphosis for decades.
Under apartheid, it was confrontational and defensive.
The apartheid government despised certain countries and carefully selected those that sustained the apartheid regime.
Moreover, the proponents of apartheid used the government’s foreign policy to defend the apartheid policy. As the country prepared for the anticipated new political dispensation in the early 1990s, a need arose to relook into the country’s foreign policy with two aims in mind.
Firstly, it was
