The process of economic liberalisation and integration into the global markets must continue; economic co-operation in Southern Africa, and with countries further North in Africa, will be extended; the implementation of the Government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme, and the Strategy for Growth, Employment and Redistribution, will be pursued with vigour and determination. The task ahead is not an easy one.
South Africa, and Africa, will need all the assistance it can get from the rest of the world. There is growing optimism that, in the early years of the 21st century, Africa will succeed in its concerted efforts to improve the living conditions of all the people of our Continent. BIS Review 69/1997