Africa-Press – Seychelles. The leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) honored, this Thursday, in Luanda, one of the founders of the organisation, the first President of Botswana, Seretse Khama, within the framework of the 43rd Summit in Luanda.
A forerunner of SADC, Seretse Khama was king of Bechuanaland and later the first president of Botswana, a position he held from the country’s independence in 1966 until his death.
To this end, the member states of the organization attributed, posthumously, the granting of a medal of honor.
The regional organization was created in April 1980, in Zambia, with the designation Conference for the Coordination of the Development of Southern Africa. It was his aim to reduce economic dependence on the then racist South Africa. With the end of Apartheid in 1992, the organization became the Southern African Development Community, SADC.
The Southern African Development Community is an inter-governmental organization created in 1992 and dedicated to socio-economic cooperation and integration, as well as cooperation in political and security matters, of the countries of Southern Africa.
The main objectives of SADC are to achieve economic development, peace and security, growth, reduce poverty, raise the standard and quality of life of the populations of Southern Africa, and support disadvantaged social strata through regional integration.
The organization includes Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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