África do Sul e o seu entorno regional: existe um subimperialismo sul-africano?

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa dos Santos, Fabio Luis
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Carta Internacional (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.cartainternacional.abri.org.br/Carta/article/view/882

This text analyzes South Africa´s relations with its neighbors since the end of apartheid,questioning the understanding that African National Congress (ANC) governments havepursued subimperialistic policies. This analysis is supported by documents and interviewsundertaken in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Initially, an overview of South Africa´srelations with its neighbors is presented, bringing to light the imbalance that typifies them.Then I discuss the failed attempt of president Thabo Mbeki to lead an African Renaissanceunder the frame of Nepad and its outcomes. Third section focuses on Southern Africa, as theconsequences of South African business expansion in Zimbabwe and Zambia are examined.Next, I discuss if such expansion is strategized by ANC government, through interviews withdifferent players. In the final reflections, I suggest that although there is an imbalance inSouth Africa´s relations to its neighbors, the weaknesses and contradictions of the State andof South African capitalism in itself, limit its scope of intervention. As a result, the regionalexpansion of South African business seems to take place despite any State strategy, thusproblematizing the characterization of such phenomena as subimperialism.