South African Foreign Policy Review. Volume 2.

Full details of chapter Chris Landsberg, Lesley Masters, Jo-Ansie van Wyk, and Siphamandla Zondi. ‘South Africa’s Foreign Policy, Principles and Practice: An Invitation to Conversations’, in Lesley Masters, Siphamandla Zondi, Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Chris Landsberg (Eds.) South African foreign policy review. Volume 2. African Institute of South Africa (AISA): Pretoria. 2015. [ISBN 978-0-7983-0439-9]

SAYIL, 2009

2012

In 1994, after the African National Congress’s electoral victory, the Republic of South Africa emerged as a promising regional foreign policy actor. The rise of a generation formed in one of the most epic global political struggles, its proclaimed commitment to promote peace and development and its promise to put human rights at the heart of its international relations seemed to open a new era in Africa.The new South Africa established itself as a key actor in the region, acting as a mediator and sending peacekeeping

A Foreign Policy Handbook for Parliament The Parliament of South Africa has a proud tradition of engagement in South Africa’s foreign policy. The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation (the Committee) has been engaged in debate on numerous issues, from human rights to economic diplomacy, in shaping South Africa’s approach towards international relations. As the new Committee begins the work of parliamentary oversight, there is an opportunity to reflect on the first two decades of post-apartheid South Africa’s foreign policy. https://www.igd.org.za/jdownloads/Monographs%20and%20Books/A%20Foreign%20Policy%20Handbook%20-%20ebook.pdf

SAYIL, 2010

International Journal For Reseacrh In Applied Science And Engineering Technology, 2020

This article explains the foreign policy of South Africa from the period of 1994-2012. It explains the points of the dimensions of South Africa's foreign policy. " Continuity and Change of South Africa's Foreign Policy 1994-2012" focused to understand how and what effect, changing and significance has been there in the foreign policy of South Africa from the Mandela to Jacob Zuma time period. The foreign policy of South Africa has been important. The basic foreign policy of South Africa is to promote its territories, human rights, and peace. South Africa foreign policy has been relating to an apartheid policy which is a background of it. It examines the foreign policy in Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma presidential. It describes the foreign policy from apartheid to post-apartheid.

This study is based on a few cases and aims at trying to evaluate the foreign policy of South Africa to try to find whether its behaviour on the foreign policy sphere is consistent with its espoused and declared ideals at its independence. It puts to test South Africa’s capacity for African and regional leadership on the political front. The cases used to arrive at tentative conclusions are the Libyan crisis, the Ivory Coast Crisis, the Zimbabwe crises, the Central African Republic crisis. Though there may be many other cases where South Africa is or was involved in Africa these few were used just to open a small window through which the foreign policy of South Africa might be viewed. The study concludes that South Africa’s foreign policy in its current form does not assist civilians on the continent and it has abdicated its ‘protection’ based foreign policy legacy crafted and left by Nelson R. Mandela the First South Africa President. Instead it props undemocratic regimes on the continent.

The Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 2020

This study examines the trajectory of South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy by establishing the extent of change or consistency in its implementation since 1994. Under the ruling African National Congress (ANC), South Africa has emerged as a promising international actor, particularly within the Southern African region and on the African continent in general. The authors provide a historical analysis of the major trajectories of foreign policy articulation under the administrations of Presidents Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma spanning the period 1994 to 2018. In investigating the conception and execution of foreign policy under these dispensations, the authors unravel a consistent but skewed pattern of national role conception that underscores Pretoria’s vision to be a major actor in international affairs, both regionally and globally. We conclude that South Africa’s foreign policy during this period was marked by Mandela’s altruism, Mbeki’s Afrocentrism and t...

2007

This article introduces the special issue on “South African Foreign Policy: identity, directions, and intentions”. Here we seek to bring together key insights from the contributions to this special issue to deepen understanding of South Africa’s evolving post-apartheid foreign policy through an exploration of the nature and trajectory of key bilateral relationships from both the global ‘South’ (Brazil, China, Iran, the AU) and ‘North’ (Japan and the UK). This window on the country’s international relations enriches understanding of the normative and structural factors that influence not only South African foreign policy, but those of what Edouard Jordaan calls emerging middle powers as they seek to position themselves as influential actors in international affairs. We outline the contours of these key South African relationships in four areas where the tendencies and tensions of emerging middle power foreign policies are apparent: regionalism, multilateralism, reform of global governance, and approach to moral leadership.