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Africa 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.
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.
SADC headquarters are located in Gaborone, Botswana.
Objectives:
- 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.
Members:
- Angola,
- Botswana,
- Democratic
Republic of Congo,
- Lesotho,
- Malawi,
- Mauritius,
- Mozambique,
- Namibia,
- South
Africa,
- Swaziland,
- United Republic of Tanzania,
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe.
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