This year’s Southern African development community (SADC) annual Meeting, Chose industrialisation as the priority for the region. The Tanzanian head of state, John Joseph Magufuli, was elected in Dare salaam, to lead the community according to a rotation leadership routine. The two main priorities envisaged by John Joseph Magufuli during his one year term, are the preservation of peace and the promotion of the industrialisation process in the Southern African development community (SADC).