Is South Africa a bully in SACU?

If South Africa chooses to play the role of the bully of the region, it could get in the way of southern Africa's integration into a unified African government in the long run, argues RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE

Perhaps, even as the African Union strives towards building a single continental government, the smaller nations should remain vigilant against bullying by regional middle level imperialist countries which want to gain economic advantage for their territories at the expense of the less advantaged economies.

It does appear that with the demise of the apartheid ideology of regional integration based on domination of the southern African economies by South Africa, there still are lingering ambitions among the leadership of the new 'non-racial, democratic' South Africa for domination, perhaps even domestication, of the poorer economies of southern Africa.

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