|- | Seat | Gaborone, Botswana |- | Members | 14 Member States |- | Working languages | English, French and Portuguese |- | Formation
- SADCC
- SADC
|
April 1st 1980
August 17th 1992 |- | General secretary | Tomaz Augusto Salomão |- | Official site | http://www.sadc.int |}

The Communauté of development of Southern Africa (or SADC , Acronym of the English Southern African Development Community ) is an organization which aims at promoting the economic development of the Southern Africa. It succeeded the August 17th 1992 the Conférence of coordination for the development of the Southern Africa , founded on April 1st 1980.

Member States

The 9 States founders are:

• Angola
• Botswana
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

The total of the members passed to 14 with adhesions of:

• Namibia - March 31st 1990
• South Africa - August 30th 1994
• Maurice - August 28th 1995
• - September 8th 1997
• Madagascar - August 18th 2005

The Seychelles joined the Community the September 8th 1997, but left it on July 1st 2004. Negotiations would be in hand for a réadhésion. The candidature of the Rwanda was rejected in 2005 for questions of procedure.

See too

Internal bonds

• Customs union of Southern Africa
• Economic community of the States of central Africa
• Communauté Is African
• commercial Bloc

External bond

• Official site of the Community