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Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Official website - http://www.sadc.int

SADC Profile

The Southern African Development  Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a  loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the main aim of  coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on the  then apartheid South Africa. The founding Member States are: Angola, Botswana,  Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and  Zimbabwe.

SADCC was formed in Lusaka, Zambia  on April 1, 1980, following the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration - Southern  Africa: Towards Economic Liberation.

The transformation of the  organization from a Coordinating Conference into a Development Community (SADC)  took place on August 17, 1992 in Windhoek, Namibia when the Declaration and  Treaty was signed at the Summit of Heads of State and Government thereby giving  the organization a legal character.

The Member States are Angola,  Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi,  Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland,  United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

SADC headquarters are located in  Gaborone, Botswana.
 

REC Activities

April 01, 2022

On 1st April 2022, The AU Permanent Representative to Southern Africa and COMESA, H.E Ambassador David Claude Pierre paid a Courtesy visit to the Southern Africa Development Community(SADC) in Gaborone Botswana.

April 29, 2020

His Excellency, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Un

March 09, 2020

The main purpose of the meeting was to share existing knowledge and information on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has had devastating global impacts since its outbreak in December 2019, and agree on how to harmonize and coordinate the preparedness and response to Covid-19 in the SADC region.

Topic Resources

September 30, 2020

Labor Migration Statistics Report in Africa Second edition: Regional Migration Profile

Executive Summary

September 30, 2020

Labor Migration Statistics Report in Africa Second edition: Regional Migration Profile

Executive Summary