The Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC) comprises nine radically different states & was formed in 1980 with the objective of reducing the region's dependence on apartheid South Africa. SADCC has been subjected to much critical, skeptical & sometimes superficial analysis by mostly outside observers. This collection of essays projects an African perspective on an organisation seen as a hopeful augury of a more prosperous & genuinely independent African future. Candid & comprehensive, the essays present a cautiously optimistic view of the region's prospects of a successful 'delinking' from South Africa.

This is a book on economic co-operation in southern Africa which looks to the future. The first ten years of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference have been mainly devoted to co-operation in transport and communications, not least to reduce dependence on apartheid South Africa. In order to move to an offensive to combat underdevelopment, SADCC has recognized the need to move into intra-regional trade and industrialization. Tom Oestergaard's study is an analysis of the obstacles which have to be overcome, and the minimum of changes that the SADCC countries must agree on to achieve balanced and co-ordinated development. fact that Southern Africa is overwhelmingly oriented to foreign markets and suppliers, and the lack of co-ordination which is heightened by the often diverse role of transnational corporations, banks, and donor agencies. illustration by the study of the tractor industry and SADCC. It serves to illuminate and dramatize the constraints, but also the gains to be made if co-ordination can be made a reality.

Conference report on energy and a forecast of power consumption and power demands to the year 2000 in SADC states of Southern Africa - examines power supply of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, fuelwood and biomass; discusses energy policy and planning issues; includes country policy statements on energy development. Diagrams and statistical tables. Conference held in Harare 1982 Nov 29 to Dec 3.

Study of the development potential of regional level ECDC and TCDC among member states of the SADC (Southern African Development Coordination Conference) - explains efforts to reduce dependence on the role of South Africa R; discusses development projects in the industrial sector, transport, energy, agricultural sector and mining; vocational training; considers trade development, capital needs, development aid, foreign investments, etc.; includes directory of regional agencies. Maps, references, statistical tables.