South Africa: Checking SADC’s compliance with its own Treaty

Any summit meeting such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit on Saturday, 17 August, inevitably raises questions about the success and failure of the organisation. This can be a narrow reflection on the past period, or it can focus more deeply on the utility of the organisation as a whole. 

In the last Sapes Policy Dialogue, the broad question Whither SADC? was asked, and the reflection was pessimistic about SADC’s value, but not about the possibilities for SADC…