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The 1990s in South Africa saw unprecedented levels of political violence whilst negotiations for a democratic transition were ongoing. Much of the blame for the violence was placed on a ‘Third Force’ of nebulous origins. This paper proposes that a covert alliance, Aliança Contra as Rebeliões em Africa, (Alcora) between white minority rule in Southern Africa (Portugal, Rhodesia, and Apartheid South Africa) laid the foundations for a type of state terrorism which deliberately sought to sow division among liberation groups. The direct result of such a strategy was instrumental in the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique, and a deliberate attempt to foment civil war in South Africa in the 1990s.
