Regional organizations in Southern Africa

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Title:	Regional organizations in Southern Africa
Author:	Mbilima, D.
Book title:	Industrialization and investment incentives in Southern Africa
Year:	1989
Pages:	31-44
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Southern Africa
Subjects:	SADC Common Monetary Area SACU COMESA
Abstract:	In this article, Southern Africa is taken to be all countries from Tanzania, Zambia and Angola, south to South Africa. Although Angola and Tanzania are excluded from detailed discussion, they are members of the SADCC, and the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) for Eastern and Southern Africa. All the countries in Southern Africa belong to at least one of the four formal economic groupings within the region: SADCC, PTA, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Common Monetary Area (CMA, until 1986 the Rand Monetary Area or RMA). In addition, all but South Africa, Mozambique and Angola are signatories to the Lomé Convention. This paper discusses each of these organizations in turn: their origins, objectives, member States, problems, etc. It shows that a particular country's role within any of the regional groupings is to a large extent influenced by that country's economy in relation to the South African economy. These relations differ qualitatively and quantitatively. This explains why countries can be at the same time members of SACU or CMA and of SADCC or PTA. Bibliogr.