Southern African Development Community

by Andréas Godsäter University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Table of contents

1. Introduction

1. History of SADC
1.1. From SADCC to SADC
1.2. The creation of SADC
1.3. SADC recent history

2. SADC’s governance structure

2.1. The Summit
2.2. The Council of Ministers (COM)
2.3. The Ministerial Clusters
2.4. The Standing Committee of Officials
2.5. The Secretariat
2.6. The SADC National Committees (SNC)
2.7. The Tribunal
2.8. The Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation

3. Democracy at national level in Southern Africa

4. SADC and input legitimacy

4.1 Regional civil society
4.2. Political parties and regional integration

5. Popular participation in SADC

5.1. Civil society participation in SADC
5.2. SADC and gender

6. Popular control of SADC

7. How supranational is SADC?

7.1. Supranational bodies within SADC
7.2. Power limitations of SADC-bodies

8. SADC and the promotion of democracy and human rights

8.1. SADC legal documents dealing with HR and democracy
8.2. Regional juridical mechanisms for human rights protection
8.3. Regionalisation of citizenship?

9. Output legitimacy

10. Conclusions