What is the purpose of Southern African Development Community?

<h3>What is the purpose of Southern African Development Community?</h3>

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<strong>Lesotho best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by JORGE N</i><br/>The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the main aim of coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on the then apartheid South Africa. The founding Member States are: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.</p>
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Malealea Band, Lesotho</p>

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