P.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… in sanctions. It would have further established South Africa as a cold war ally of the US in their fight against … as a regional alliance of states consisting of South Africa, Rhodesia (which was to become Zimbabwe in 1980), South West Africa (Namibia by 1990), Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, …