SADC - Southern African Development Community, has been in existence since, 1980, when it was established by 9 Government States of Southern Africa known as SADCC (Southern African Development Coordination Conference) formed on April 1, 1980 in Lusaka, Zambia, later transformed on August 17, 1992 to SADC.
SADC Head Quarters are located in Gaborone, Botswana.
It was created for Economic Liberation.
Working languages - English, French & Portuguese.
SADC Head Quarters are located in Gaborone, Botswana.
It was created for Economic Liberation.
Working languages - English, French & Portuguese.
SADC and its member States are expected to act according to the following principles:
Sovereign equality of all member States;
Solidarity, peace and security;
Human rights, democracy, and the rule of law;
Equity, balance and mutual benefit;
Peaceful settlement of disputes
The objectives of SADC are to:
Achieve development and economic growth, alleviate poverty, enhance the standard and quality of life of the people of Southern Africa and support the socially disadvantaged through regional integration;
Evolve common political values, systems and institutions;
Promote and defend peace and security;
Promote self-sustaining development on the basis of collective self-reliance, and the interdependence of Member States;
Achieve complementarity between national and regional strategies and programmes;
Promote and maximise productive employment and utilisation of resources of the Region;
Achieve sustainable utilisation of natural resources and effective protection of the environment;
Strengthen and consolidate the long standing historical, social and cultural affinities and links among the people of the Region.
The ultimate objective of SADC, the Community is, therefore, to build a Region in which there will be a high degree of harmonisation and rationalisation to enable the pooling of resources to achieve collective self-reliance in order to improve the living standards of the people of the region.
SADC ANTHEM
SADC, SADC DAWN OF OUR CERTAINTYSADC, SADC DAWN OF A BETTER FUTUREAND HOPE FOR REGIONAL AND UNIVERSAL INTEGRATIONTOWARDS OUR PEOPLES UNITY AND HARMONY
CRADLE OF HUMANITY CRADLE OF OUR ANCESTORSLET US PRAISE WITH JOY, THE REALIZATION OF OUR HOPESAND RAISE THE BANNER OF SOLIDARITYSADC, SADC SADC, SADC DAWN OF OUR CERTAINTY
The SADC vision is one of a common future, a future in a regional community that will ensure economic well-being, improvement of the standards of living and quality of life, freedom and social justice and peace and security for the peoples of Southern Africa.
SADC has 15 member states:
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Nambia [since 31 Mar. 1990], South Africa [since 30 Aug. 1994], Mauritius [28 Aug. 1995]
Democratic Republic of Congo [since 8 Sept. 1997], Madagascar [since 18 Aug. 2005], Seychelles [since 15 Aug. 2007]
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