Advancing regional integration through the free movement of persons in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Date
2020
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Nelson R Mandela School of Law
Abstract
The level at which the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) region
has managed to regulate the free movement
of persons, so as to reduce or completely
eliminate, rigorous administrative
requirements poses a challenge in so far as
the ease of services supply is concerned.
The Draft Protocol on the Facilitation on
the Movement of Persons of 2005, remains
inoperative, leaving national immigration
laws to regulate the movement of people in
the region. This lack of progress may indicate
a lack of political will towards creating an
effective large-scale integrated community.
Intra-regional trade in aspects relating to
services in the SADC is at a low as will be seen
in the background and introductory section
of this paper. This paper seeks to argue for
the adoption of a less restrictive approach
towards movement of people as a strategy
to further boost regional trade in the SADC.
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Intra-regional trade, Trade in services, Regional integration, Movement of people, Economic development
Citation
Lenaghan, P., & Amadi, V. (2020). Advancing regional integration through the free movement of persons in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Speculum Juris, 34(1), 51-67