Using various case studies as well as legal, communication, and awareness perspectives, this book examines the nexus of the people of Southern Africa, democratization, and integration in the SADC region.

Since its establishment in 1980 the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has largely been a state driven organization, with the people of Southern Africa, though enshrined in the treaty, remaining observers in the SADC democratization and integration agenda. The Southern African Development Community Treaty-Nexus: National Constitutions, Citizen’s Sovereignty, Communication, and Awareness, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane, and Norbert Musekiwa, brings in the people of Southern Africa, the key beneficiaries of the integration agenda, in the SADC democratization and integration epistemology. Using the new concepts of sadcness and sadcnization, this book operationalizes from legal, communication, and awareness perspectives, the nexus of the people of Southern Africa, democratization, and integration in the SADC region. From legal and communications lenses, the contributors argue that 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 engage in this epistemology and assess, among other things, the peoples' of Southern Africa—the Southern Africa Development Community integration nexus.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introductory Context: Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation, National Constitutions-SADC Treaty Nexus: Analytical, Conceptual, and Theoretical Frameworks

Korwa Gombe Adar

Part One: Sovereignty of the People of Southern Africa, National Constitutions and the SADC Treaty-Nexus: Legal Dimensions

1. The Right to Demonstrate in Angola and the Need for Legal Harmonization in Southern African Development Community

Nelson D. Antonio

2. Locating Sadacness in the Southern African Development Community ACQUIS: A Legal Assessment

Gosego Rockfall Lekgowe and Keaoleboga Dipogiso

3. The Legal for the Participation of the Malagashi Population in the Integration Process Within the Southern African Development Community

Steve Tametong and Idah Razafindrakoto

4. The Legal Framework for Free Movement and the Need for Harmonization of Law in SADC with a View to Greater Involvement of People in the Decision-Making Process

Madalena da Piedade Chiconela Santana

5. Peoples’ Agency and Participation in the Democratization and Integration Agenda of the Southern African Development Community: The Case of South Africa

Rita Ozoemena and Marlon Zakeyo

6. Zimbabwe Citizens’ Sovereignty, the Constitution and Southern African Development Community Treaty Nexus

Ashton Murwira

Part Two: SADC Citizens’ Sovereignty-SADC Nexus: Communication and Awareness Dimensions

7. Angola Press and Southern African Development Community: Between Consolidation of Democracy and Peoples’ Agency

Luca Bussotti and Jose Katito

8. Communicating the Role of SADC in Botswana: Examining people’s role in SADC’s agenda

Letshwiti Batlhalefi Tutwane

9. Can the Communication Sector Solve the Malagasy ‘Double Paradox’ Related to Democratization and Sadcness?

Andrianirina Rabemananoro

10. Peoples’ Agency and the Image of Southern African Development Community Integration and Democratization: Analytical Assessment of the Mozambican Press

Laura Antonio Nhaueleque

11. Communication and Publicity Imperatives in Promoting Southern African Development Community’s Mandate in South Africa: Prospects for Effective Democracy and Regional Integration

Thabiso Muswede

12. The Proliferation of Digital Mass Communication in Southern African Development Community and Revitalization of Human Agency in Southern Africa’s Democratization: The Case of Zimbabwe

Alexander M. Rusero

Part Three: Conclusion and Recommendations

Conclusion and Recommendations

Kebapetse Lotshwao

Index

About the Editors and the Contributors