scholarly journals South Africa and the Southern African Development Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-45
Author(s):  
Chris Sauders ◽  
Dawn Nagar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Development

SADC reform imperatives face multiple challenges

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
African Development ◽  
The Face ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Subject SADC reform potential Significance Between September and February, new presidents came to power in South Africa, Angola and Zimbabwe, three key Southern African Development Community (SADC) states. In the latter two, the outgoing presidents has held power for nearly four decades each. The stagnation this imposed on their countries also affected SADC. New leaders could take the organisation forward, but it is not clear whether they have the appetite for this in the face of formidable domestic and regional obstacles. Impacts A likely third-term bid by Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu will present SADC with difficulties over whether to publicly censure a member. Potentially heightened DRC refugee outflows will be a major concern for neighbouring states. Burundi's accession bid will increase scrutiny of SADC's democratic credentials given President Pierre Nkurunziza's contentious rule.

scholarly journals Water research and collaboration in the Southern African Development Community

Water SA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3 July) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastassios Pouris
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Research ◽  
Related Research ◽  
African Development ◽  
The Web

This article investigates water-related research in the Southern African Development Community. Water issues are part of the region’s science and technology priorities as 4countries receive less rain than the global average of 860 mm/yr – Botswana with 400 mm/yr, Namibia with 254 mm/yr, South Africa with 497 mm/yr and Zimbabwe with 652 mm/yr. Furthermore, the international literature indicates that joint or internationally coordinated research has the potential to improve the scientific–technical quality of international agreements, prevent conflict and shape the way for appropriate management of the shared resources. Scientometric analysis using the Web of Science database is employed in order to identify the state of water research and collaboration in the SADC region. The Web of Science indexes a defined set of journals worldwide and the South African Government provides incentives/subsidies for publications indexed by this database. The results show that South Africa is the main producer (80%) of research publications in the region. Similarly, in the field of water research South Africa produces 75% of the region’s research. The SADC collaboration matrix in water-related research reveals that there is minimal, if any, collaborative research on the topic. Some seed-level research exists between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The main funders of research are the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) (acknowledged in 180 publications), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (72 publications), the National Institutes of Health (64 publications) and the Wellcome Trust (60 publications). Policy implications are discussed (e.g. the establishment of SADC Common Water Research Area; research support for the region, etc.).

E-Commerce Penetration in the SADC Region

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelvin Joseph Bwalya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Development ◽  
New Business ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Transition Change

E-Commerce, and recently mobile commerce (m-Commerce: ePayment, eTickets, eBanking etc.), has shown a lot of potential for development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc given the growth in e-adoption of the region. Partly, this has been attributed to sound policies and initiatives thereby creating an enabling environment for e-Commerce to thrive. However, despite this positive note, there are also challenges that are being faced on an everyday basis concerning e-Commerce business and how this impacts the SME (Small Medium Enterprise) sector. This chapter aims to present these challenges and recommend on what should be done in order to consolidate and move forward the adoption of e-Commerce applications in the SADC region. It looks at exploratory studies of e-Commerce penetration specifically from four SADC member countries: South Africa (arguably currently considered the most economically sound and leader of e-Commerce utilization in Africa), Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Arguably, a look at these four countries is believed to be adequately representative of the SADC bloc. In Africa, other than e-Commerce, there has been a transition (change of business models) where businesses are now done using m-Commerce (distributed dynamic computing where the host and agent keep on changing their locations). This chapter also reviews the growth of this new business model, and further looks at Africa’s infrastructure preparedness to adopt this new business model. It also looks at mobile phone subscription rates in the SADC region, level of trust in these business models, and the general value that this kind of business undertaking brings.

Evaluating water scarcity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by using a climate moisture index (CMI) indicator

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Malisawa ◽  
C. J. de W. Rautenbach
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Moisture Index ◽  
African Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Humid Region ◽  
Linear Correlation Analysis

Increasing water scarcity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has underscored the need to improve our understanding of the management of water resources. Using total evapotranspiration (TET) and precipitation (P) data of the past 16 years this study used a modified version of the climate moisture index (CMI) in order to evaluate water scarcity throughout the SADC region, by examining the relative importance of P and TET on the variability of the CMI. The CMI value for the Democratic Republic of Congo (CMIDRC = 0.347) as well as for Angola (CMIAngola = 0.351), ranged between 0.25 and 1, characteristic of a humid region, whereas CMI values for Botswana (CMIBotswana = 0.027) and South Africa (CMISouth Africa = 0.075) ranged between −0.6 and 0 or 0 and 0.25, characteristic of semi-arid to sub-humid regions. Namibia (CMINamibia = −0.125) has been experiencing drier conditions. The findings of this linear correlation analysis confirm a strong and significant relationship between DRC-Angola (r = 0.837), and a weak but significant relationship between Botswana–Namibia (r = 0.554) and South Africa–Namibia (r = 0.445) with regard to CMI, and suggest the possibility of transferring water from wetter to drier regions in the SADC study area.

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