The article demonstrates that the regional relations in the Southern Africa experienced a dramatic change which transformed this conflict region, after 1989, into a relative peaceful and safe zone between states. The abandonment of South Africa destabilization policy was instrumental in the process. Inside this new atmosphere of peace and political consensus other friction, mainly economic ones, rose and make the region oscillate between a great commitment with integration and "commercial wars". Again, South Africa regional policy is decisive for the rising of this constellation. It oscillates between a strong moral rhetoric and a pure economic ratio.
South Africa; South-African sub-continent; Regional policy