ABSTRACT
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) with its current 260 million inhabitants was established in 1992 to promote regional integration and security. It has its origins in the contest between independent African states backing national liberation forces opposing colonial rule, minority regimes and the political and military machine of the powerful South African apartheid state. This region lay at the epicentre of the struggle for self-determination and national liberation in Africa, in which the overt political use of ethnicity to marginalise and oppress was avoided and in which non-racialism was conceived as an ideal to address racial and social divides and nation-building. Consequently, those who are most influential on matters to do with regional security are the countries that gave rise and support to the forces of national liberation. Map of membership of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203422496/84b35142-f16a-4630-bee6-7fa0ac57f848/content/map4_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
