ABSTRACT
As South and Southern Africa move into the post‐apartheid era, various new potential sources of conflict emerge. Many of these originate in the composition and nature of the population of the region and in the movement of population, that is, in migration. The latter takes various forms which impact on the potential for stability and development in varying ways. In Southern Africa the phenomenon of migration exhibits some unique characteristics or at least mutations of the broader problem. However, problems of population and migration are universal and therefore cannot be dealt with as exclusively domestic or even regional issues when solutions are sought.