NGO study finds no common SADC values

From a study, titled 'The SADC We Need: Towards Values-Based Regional Integration and Development', the CNGO found that values such as 'freedom, solidarity, independence and self-determination' that were formative of the liberation movements of the 1970s and 1980s are no longer prevalent on a regional level, decades after the formation of SADC.

Former Botswana president Sir Ketumile Masire, one of the founders of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC), which preceded SADC, officially launched the study in Gaborone last week. The study found that the common regional values did not evolve into a joint effort even during the liberation movements.