SARDC’s Editorial Department produces SADC Today, a bimonthly newsletter produced on behalf of the SADC Secretariat in Botswana, as well as the Southern African News Features, a feature service that comes out twice a month.

SADC Today covers regional development, activities and SADC protocols, and is the major public source of information on what SADC is doing, as well as what it intends to do. The newsletter has sections on policy review and analysis, current issues, guest column on topics of regional interest, profiles of key personalities, community building through cultural events and sport, recent publications, diary of events, exchange rates of regional currencies against the US dollar, and a list of public holidays.

The newsletter plays an important role as it seeks to fill the vacuum that exists in regional image-setting through presentation and popularisation of regional perspectives, and monitoring regional development goals in furtherance of the concept of a regional community. The newsletter is produced in English with a four-page summary in Portuguese.

The main recipients of SADC Today, which is available on subscription, are various SADC structures and members, policy makers, cooperating partners, NGOs and other development-oriented organisation and individuals.

The Southern African News Features (SANF) provides a reliable regional perspective on key development issues such as debt crisis and globalisation, trade protocol and free trade areas (FTAs), SADC protocols and regional integration , sustainable development and the environment, democratic processes and gender issues, etc.

SANF is available on subscription, and is delivered directly as printed copy and by email, and is used widely by diplomats, media, NGOs and individuals within and outside the region.

The Editorial Department also produces other newsletters, such as UNESCO in Southern Africa on behalf of the UNESCO Sub-regional Office in Harare. The department also prepares booklets and other publications. Since Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990, the department monitored change in South Africa through twice yearly reports, Unfinished Business: South Africa's March to Democracy, and prepared an overview on change in southern Africa.

The department scans newspapers and other periodicals from within and outside the region to keep up-to-date with economic trends and as way of monitoring regional issues as they unfold.