Southern African Development Community

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-ruled South Africa. The founding Member States are: [Angola], Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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

SADC headquarters are located in Gaborone, Botswana.

Its web site is at http://www.sadc.int/

Details

SADC Objectives are to:

• achieve development and economic growth, alleviate poverty, enhance the standard and quality of life of the peoples 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 inter-dependence 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 peoples of the region

e-learning

There are 10 hits for "e-learning" on the SADC web site. These merit further scrutiny.

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