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This paper highlights South African policy initiatives that link the country's normative agenda to its economic diplomacy within the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) context. The author first describes the evolution of South Africa’s normative posturing since 1994 to illustrate how much the country’s regional diplomacy is anchored in a normative framework. He then concludes that the link between the normative foundation of South Africa's foreign policy within the SADC and its economic diplomacy is weak since the economic drivers are not implicitly tied to the norms of the country’s foreign policy, which include human rights, good governance and democracy.