Rhodesia in Transition

Publication Date: August 1978

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Samuel T. Francis

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: Africa

Type: Report

Abstract:

Although Rhodesia has not had a democratic government in the Western sense, it has had at least a stable, regular, and prosperous government that has been more respectful of human rights than its neighbors. Rhodesia now has the opportunity to create a democratic system that could serve as a model for other African states, whether they are the black one-party states or the white oligarchy in South Africa, and it has indeed come far in designing arrangements acceptable to the most influential parties of the country.