SADC: A Private Club or A Democratic Institution?

Understanding the philosophical, political, economic, and historical context is important for understanding the institutional function of the Southern African Development Community. According to Zacarias A. (1998), he is a southern African development community is actually a so-called fighting country, an independent South African country from a purely defensive military alliance, a minority of apartheid and colonial regime It is against. Economic and political allies The founders of the Southern African Development Community, in particular Mr Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Mujeuma of Namibia tend to regard the South African Development Community as a private club devoted to meeting their ideas, It clearly shows the leadership of these leaders. fact

Militant countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia belong to the Southern African Development Community (SADC). When the war broke out, the Democratic Republic of Congo has just entered the South African Development Community. In July 1997, the Southern African Development Community decided to support the Kabila government's coup against Rwanda and Uganda troops and Congolese rebels, (Niinivaara 2000: C1). The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo judged that this is very inadequate, as this is afraid of the increasing military presence of the Southern African Development Community in Central and Eastern Africa. Uganda, which uses strong political power in the Great Lakes Region, is particularly worried about the Congo's influence in southern Africa.

Tanzania is also a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). In June 2011, the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community, and the Eastern and Southern African Common Market aimed to complete the first phase of the negotiations within 36 months, with tripartite free trade areas in 26 countries Agreed to establish. As of 31 October 2014, Tanzania has sent 2,253 soldiers and other personnel to various United Nations peacekeeping operations. The Tanzanian Army is joining the South African Army and the Malawi Army in the United Nations Military Intervention Brigade (MONUSCO) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo). On March 28, 2013, the UN Security Council empowered to implement targeted attack strategies to neutralize peaceful groups that threaten the Democratic Republic of Congo.

On August 14, 2001, the 1992 SADC Convention was revised. This revision indicates that the structure, policies and measures of the Southern African Development Community have changed. One of the changes is to integrate political and security cooperation with politics, defense and security agencies (OPDS). To achieve this goal, the organization has been subdivided into eight agencies. OPDS, Ministerial Conference, Court, Southern African Development Community State Committee (SNC), and Secretariat