EDITORIAL COMMENT : SADC: A tried and trusted organisation

Southern Africa is one of the more successful regions in Africa and its regional grouping, the Southern Africa Development Community, SADC, has been in existence in some form for more than half a century, starting as the Frontline States and then adding the settler colonial territories in turn as they achieved independence or democracy with South Africa being the last ex-settler building block in 1994, 30 years ago.