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When speaking of the influence that South Africa has on its neighbouring countries, 
we must first speak of the SADC. SADC stands for Southern African Development 
Community. The SADC consists of South Africa plus the other countries of 
Southern Africa, totaling 15 countries as members. 
 
The SADC has the aim that it is going to develop into an economic union with a 
common currency. The year 2016 is mentioned as the year in which this is going to 
happen. But because of its economic power South Africa can say whether a country 
can enter or not. For example it demands that a country has to have inflation at less 
than 5%, and that the deficit in the state budget is less than 3% of the GDP. With 
these demands the formation of the union could be delayed. 
 
For each country in the SADC other than South Africa it is like that, that importation 
from South Africa is many times greater than exportation to South Africa. There is 
nothing that indicates that this is going to change in the future. This is related to the 
fact that the ANC (the party that is in power since the abolition of apartheid) chose 
the capitalist route in the neoliberal sense. It means &ldquo;business as usual&rdquo; including 
privatizations and the conquest of new markets. 
 
In Maputo we can observe a strong presence of South African products on the 
market. We all know of examples. For example, after Maputo and Matola a third 
Shoprite arrived in Maputo Province, namely in the Costa do Sol. One has to realize 
that not only do the majority of products come from South Africa, but also many of 
the owners of the companies are from South Africa. Other examples besides 
Shoprite are Steers, Motraco and Game. 
 
Commercial agriculture in South Africa is centering itself more and more on 
exportation at the expense of food securities. They use genetically modified 
organisms and prefer to cultivate paprika, pepper, flowers and cotton with this 
technology. This way they profit faster. The products are not labelled &ldquo;genetically 
modified&rdquo;, and can easily contaminate agricultural products. This could give 
problems to Zimbabwe and Zambia that are still trying to avoid letting genetically 
modified products enter their countries. 
 
You are going to discuss with others how this domination from South Africa can 
make the development of neighbouring countries difficult and how they can act. You 
also have to include the positive aspects in your discussions such as new jobs, access 
to products that were difficult to find before, raise of tax payments, etc.

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