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SADCC and the Future of Southern African Regionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Fadzai Gwaradzimba
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Since the 1960s, Southern Africa’s regional alliance patterns have been primarily determined by South Africa’s military and economic dominance of the region. Not surprisingly, divisive and conflict-ridden relations between South Africa and the less powerful majority-ruled states characterized interstate relations in the region throughout this period. In the 1970s, the latter’s collective and individual opposition to an apartheid-dominated regional order gave rise to two competing regional blocs: the South African-led Pax Pretoriana and the Frontline States (FLS) informal diplomatic alliance, which became the nucleus of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC).

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FOCUS: Toward a New African Political Order: African Perspectives on Democratization Processes, Regional Conflict Management
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African Issues , Volume 21 , Issue 1-2 , 1993 , pp. 51 - 59
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1993

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1. On August 18, 1992, the Windhoek summit meeting of SADCC signed a treaty which changed the organization from a development coordinating conference to a regional integration community, the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Both names will be used in the appropriate sections of the text. For origins of SADCC, see Nsekela, Amon J., ed., Southern Africa: Toward Economic Liberation, London, Rex Collings, 1981 Google Scholar; Tostensen, Arne, Dependence and Collective Self Reliance in Southern Africa: The Case of SADCC, Research Report No. 62, Uppsala, The Scandinavian Institute for African Studies, 1987 Google Scholar.

2. SADCC, Lusaka Declaration, Lusaka, 1980; Nsekela, op. cit., pp. xv-7.

3. Interview, The Daily News, (Tanzania) June 8, 1986, p. 1.

4. Joseph Hanlon, “SADCC in the 1990s—Development on the Frontline,” Special Report No. 1158, The Economist Intelligence Unit, September, 1989, pp. 9-77. SADCC, Annual Progress Reports, 1981-1990, esp. SADCC, Annual Progress Report, July 1987-August 1988, p. 17.

5. SADCC, Annual Progress Report, July 1987-August 1988, p.28.

6. SADCC, Communique of the SADCC Summit, Windhoek, Republic of Namibia, August 18, 1992.

7. For a comprehensive review of regionalism in Africa, see Robson, Peter, The Economics of Regional Integration, London, Allen and Unwin, 1981, p. 147 Google Scholar; Green, Reginald Herbold, “The East African Community: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” The African Review, [Dar es Salaam], vol. 8, no. 2, 1978, p. ll Google Scholar.

8. Cited in Makoni, Simba, “SADCC’s New Strategies,” Interview, Africa Report, vol. 33, no. 3, 1987, pp. 1–2 Google Scholar.