Kikwete on SADC�s origins

Both organisations had among its core objectives economic cooperation and integration of the Southern African region. It is opportune time, therefore, to look back and see how much ground has been covered and what needs to be done going forward in pursuit of this noble objective.

The Southern African Development Coordination Conference was the brain child of the Frontline States Organisation established in 1975 to assist and spearhead the struggle for political liberation of Southern Africa. Specifically, it was against South African colonialism in Namibia, white minority rule in Zimbabwe and the apartheid regime in South Africa. At the beginning, the Frontline States comprised five countries of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.