Using political and public administration perspectives, this book argues that for democratization and integration to be consolidated and institutionalized, direct involvement of the people of Southern Africa is paramount. Democratization and integration are about people, the sovereigns, and not merely the abstract actors called nation states.

Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane, and Norbert Musekiwa, engages in the debate associated with "the people of Southern Africa" (people of the Region)—democratization and integration nexus envisaged in the 1980 treaty which established the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Using political and public administration perspectives, the editors argue that for democratization and integration to be tangibly consolidated and institutionalized, direct involvement of the people of Southern Africa, the peoples' agency, is paramount and would lead to what is dubbed in this book as sadcness and sadcnization. More specifically, democratization and integration are about people (citizens), the sovereigns, and not merely the abstract actors called nation states. Using the case studies of Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, the contributors have, from political and public administration dimensions, engaged in this epistemology assessing, among other things, the peoples' of Southern Africa-the Southern Africa Development Community integration nexus.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviation

Part One: SADC Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation and Democratization of the Region: Political Administration Dimensions

Introductory Context: Theorizing the Role of Southern African Development Community Citizens’ Sovereignty and Popular Participation in the Integration and Democratization of the SADC Region,

Korwa Gombe Adar

1. Angola: The Challenges of National and Regional People-Driven Integration and Democratization

Nuno Fragoso Vidal

2. Evaluating Botswana’s Participatory Democracy as a Prelude to Regional Democratization and Integration in Southern African Development Community

Keaoleboga Dipogiso, Lawrence Ookeditse, Shirley Monyatsi and Batlang Seabo

3. Regional Integration of Madagascar within SADC: an appreciation based on the free movement of persons

Idah Razafindrakoto

4. Terrorism in Cabo Delgado and lessons for enhancing sadacnization in the Southern African Region

Arcenio Francisco Cuco and Felizardo Antonio Pedro

5. Southern African Development Community, Power, Politics, and People

Siphamandla Zondi

6. Rethinking the Concept of the People in the Context of Democratization and Integration in Southern African Development Community Region: The Case of Zimbabwe

Lawrence Mhandara

Part Two: SADC Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation and Democratization of the Region: Public Administration Dimensions

7. Southern Africa Sadcnization: Challenges of Democratization of the Public Institutions of Angola

Eurico Josue Ngunga

8. Public Administration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples Agency and Popular Participation in Botswana

Dorothy Mpabanga, Lawrence Ookeditse, and Thekiso Molokwane

9. Democratization in the Light of the Challenges of the Regional Integration of Madagascar in SADC: Case Study on Competitive Civil Service Examinations

Josie Volaravo Dominique

10. Sovereignty and Direct Citizen Participation in Government Policies in Mozambique in the Context of Southern African Development Community

Henriques Jose Henriques

11. Inclusive Governance for effective Public Administration in Southern African Development Communty: A South African Perspective

Elvin Shava

12. Citizen and Civil Society Participation in Public Administration and Governance Processes in Zimbabwe

Norbert Musekiwa, Gideon Zhou, and David Mandiyanike

Part Three: Conclusion: Towards Sadcness and Sadcnization in Southern African Development Community Region

Conclusion and Recommendations

Kebapetse Lotshwao

Index

About the Editors and the Contributors