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One significant challenge is that member states also participate in other regional economic cooperation schemes and regional political and security cooperation schemes that may compete with or undermine SADC's aims. For example, South Africa and Botswana both belong to the Southern Africa Customs Union, Zambia is a part of the Common Market for ...
Map of Africa showing the member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Nations that are members of SADC and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are coloured dark green, while those that are members of SADC only are coloured light green. Date: 20 November 2011, 13:16 (UTC) Source: BlankMap-Africa.svg; Author
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981.
Some of the main goals for the Member States were to be less dependent on apartheid South Africa and to introduce programmes and projects which would influence the Southern African countries and whole region. [1] The Co-ordination Conference was a result of consultations in the late seventies.
Southern Africa has a more developed economy than other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to its rich natural resources, well-established mining sector, and manufacturing industries. South Africa, the region’s economic powerhouse, has a strong financial sector, while Botswana and Namibia
The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa group together individual countries in subregions for the purposes of achieving greater economic integration. They are described as the "building blocks" of the African Union ( AU ) and are also central to the strategy for implementing the African Development Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD).
The Southern African Regional Universities Association was established in 2005 as a membership based association for the 66 public universities in the 15 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The African Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) is a free trade zone announced at the EAC-SADC-COMESA Summit on 22 October 2008 by the heads of Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC).