Southern African Development Community
(SADC)
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.
SADC Headquaters In Gaborone,Botswana |
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.
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