SADC made it clear that it did not like the MDC-West relationship. Mbeki wrote a good and detailed letter to that effect.

Madagscar is like WHAT WOULD HAVE happened if the MDC's final push campaign to oust Mugabe had succeeded. Sadc would have gone mad. A similar campaign succeeds in Malgasy and of course SADC is furious.

They are firmly opposed to foreign backed overthrowing of gvts of member states.