South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, chairman of the Southern African Development Community, welcomed the draft.
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The announcement from members of the Southern African Development Community came after a day-long meeting in Harare.
Under the rules of the Southern African Development Community, a threatened member can call on support from the others.
He went higher then, and in 2007 sued Mr Mugabe before the tribunal of the Southern African Development Community.
So far, the response from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional club of 14 countries, has been muted.
But a single truck still needs to carry up to 1, 000 documents just to travel between the countries of the Southern African Development Community.
The Southern African Development Community, a 15-country regional club, even intervened militarily in 1998, sending troops from South Africa and Botswana to put down a coup.
Later, an observer team from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) was held for some 45 minutes by Zanu-PF supporters at a farm about 20km (13 miles) outside Karoi.
The leader of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) team of observers, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe, has called for those running in the elections to show tolerance and moderation.
Yet Swaziland chairs the body dealing with peace and security for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional club of 15 countries that has been mandated to bring democracy to Zimbabwe.
South Africa and the Southern African Development Community, the 15-country regional club, continue to wobble and waffle, with South Africa's ousted president, Thabo Mbeki, as feeble as ever in his mandated role as mediator.
Mr Mwanawasa, the current chairman of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), said he sympathised with Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai when he withdrew from the presidential election because of political violence against his supporters.
If it cannot, the disputes are to be referred first to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-member regional group which, after months of deadlock, succeeded in ramming the deal through on January 28th.
Mr Mumbengegwi said Zimbabwe had already invited observers from the African Union (AU) and two regional bodies, the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), to monitor the referendum.
If the election does go ahead and Mr Mugabe wins, even organisations like the Southern African Development Community, the 14-country regional club that has been loth to criticise Mr Mugabe publicly, may become reluctant to accept his legitimacy.
But more weight than usual will be given to the verdict of monitors from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a club of 15 countries, which has endorsed Zimbabwe's previous flawed elections out of solidarity for a fellow member.
China has offered aid for regional energy, water and transport projects to the Southern African Development Community, but has pointedly said that implementation of the deal would be difficult while two of the community's members, Malawi and Swaziland, continued to recognise Taiwan.
This he has done, repeatedly, demanding new elections first in 2010, then in 2011 and now before the end of this year, whether or not electoral reforms and a new constitution are in place by then, as required under the power-sharing pact, drawn up in 2008 under the auspices of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-member regional club, following the MDC's victory in the polls earlier that year.
The Conference agenda include the development of strategies of lobbying the African Union, the ECOWAS, Southern African Development Community (SADCC) and other inter-state bodies to reform laws obstructing free speech and expression, and discussions of ways to develop proposals for common legal standards for free expression legislation in Africa.
The African Union and the 15-country Southern African Development Community, an influential regional club, as well as the European Union and the United States, denounced a recent coup in Madagascar by Andry Rajoelina and said they would work to restore the country's constitutional order.
The 15-country Southern African Development Community (SADC), which has been trying to break the impasse, does not carry much weight with either side.
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One course might be to stop pretending it is just another member of the Organisation of African Unity or Southern African Development Community, and start developing bilateral relations with other African countries, perhaps extending the South African Customs Union free-trade agreement to them.
Leaders from four southern African nations who have been mediating the stalled dispute called Tuesday for a full Southern African Development Community summit.
The book is also a devastating indictment of the 15-country Southern African Development Community and especially of South Africa, its leading member, for failing to admit what happened in its bizarre determination to keep Mr Mugabe on his throne.
Tsvangirai has accused Mugabe of keeping the most powerful portfolios in the government for his ruling party, while Mugabe said the opposition's proposals differed from those laid out by the 15-nation Southern African Development Community, which has attempted to broker a resolution.
However, the opposition Democratic Alliance has called for the cancellation of power contracts with other Southern African Development Community states.
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