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Mbeki's Swedish friends (from SIDA) in Lusaka: the Bjurner-Norbergs, Tor Sellström, nature of relationship; The Historical Justice address on self-definition, can the oppressed people count on Swedes as allies?; problem with Soviet application of Marxism, Mbeki started visiting the US regularly around the early 1980s, had to marry notions of materialist understanding of history, liberal notion of individual agency, self-determination in post-liberation Africa; cold war politics, Sino-Soviet dispute, Moscow supported Vietnam invasion of Khmer, 1979, Chinese invaded North Vietnam; ANC condemned China's criminal act of aggression; November 1986 Mbeki and Tambo to Moscow to meet Gorbachev, also meeting with Reagan, cold war thaw; non-alignment became a necessity; ANC's relationship with Russia and US, US the ANC's antagonist in war in Angola; African-American anti-apartheid lobby; Mbeki and Tambo to US in June 1981, began Mbeki's decade long courtship with the American liberal establishment; the Lusaka Accord, the Nkomati Accord non-aggression pact signed by SA and Mozambique; ANC banished from forward area, SA to cease assisting RENAMO, region a playing field for super powers, ANC's response an emphasis on self-reliance; early 1980 the beginning of the ANC's thinking about a negotiated settlement , thinking after UN passed Resolution 435 on Namibia, ANC didn't want outside forces to aid a South African settlement, concede that there must be negotiations and a peaceful transition the importance of self-determination as a basis for negotiations; in 1983 Mbeki statement about Pretoria they are desperate, they're cracking, Pretoria's preconditions for talks remained untenable.
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