This report was prepared as part of research into the rights of non-nationals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It was agreed at the beginning of the enquiry that an investigation of this nature should be accompanied by an enquiry into the levels of access of nationals themselves to socio-economic rights in each country in addition to questions of access by non-nationals. The project was co-ordinated by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) with the assistance of researchers from SPII and a number of other civil society organisations across the region.