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South Africa Rejects Calls For SADC Summit To Be Moved From Zimbabwe

7 months agoTue, 13 Aug 2024 05:03:23 GMT
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South Africa Rejects Calls For SADC Summit To Be Moved From Zimbabwe

South Africa says it has no authority to demand that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) move the 44th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit from Harare, Zimbabwe, to another member state, despite reports of multiple arrests and human rights violations in the lead-up to the regional event scheduled for August 17, 2024.

Clayson Monyela, the head of public diplomacy at South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation, said his country does not have the authority to insist that the event be relocated.

This is because Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is the incoming chairperson of SADC. Said Monyela (via Business Day):

Zimbabwe is the incoming chair of SADC. SA will have no authority to tell SADC that the summit can’t take place in Harare.

SA maintains that political challenges can be resolved by peaceful dialogue. All the issues that are being raised by activists and political organisations can be resolved by sitting around the table with the government of the day. SA will have no problem playing a facilitating role.

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Though the 44th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit is scheduled for August 17, 2024, SADC meetings have already begun taking place in Harare.

A SADC Industrial Week is currently underway in Harare, and a Council of Ministers meeting, as well as a meeting of the SADC Troika, will occur in the lead-up to the main Summit.

Ahead of the SADC Summit, the government of Zimbabwe has launched a crackdown on activists, likely in an attempt to prevent potential demonstrations during the regional event.

Opposition figure Jameson Timba and 77 other activists have been detained since June 16, with several other activists arrested in the subsequent weeks.

The streets of Harare now resemble a country in a state of heightened security, with military vehicles patrolling potential flashpoints in the capital city’s central business district and high-density residential areas.

In response to the reported human rights violations, the Democratic Alliance (DA) – a coalition partner of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) – has recently called for the venue of the SADC Summit to be changed from Harare.

The DA’s spokesperson on international relations, Emma Powell, said:

Allowing the summit to proceed under the current circumstances will not only endorse ZANU PF’s flagrant abuse of international law but further undermine the principles upon which SADC was established.

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50 Comments

cute gel · 7 months ago
sadc is just a useless organisation haina kana zvainotibetsera nazvo
Xx · 7 months ago
@aka kana dzisingaone ndezvavo ,isu tinoti nyika inovakwa nevene vayo ,tiri. kuona kuti Zimbabwe president inayo
chimukela · 7 months ago
you are correct do we need SADC Summit to solve any pressing issues? I don't think so if there was any issues during the elections it was supposed to have been rectified there and then why a year on ?
Tarfex · 7 months ago
It's too late to act now
kkk · 7 months ago
if you know you know
unknown · 7 months ago
south African politicians are eating in zim. why on earth would they soil their sadza
Chibaba · 7 months ago
It's too late to change the venue only 4 days left regai vangoita zvipere we are not safe with this ZANU PF government.
44yrs · 7 months ago
At the end ndimi muchatichengeta ikoko musazotipisa nekuti muri kununurira zvakaipa keep on praising zimbabwe
Shadows · 7 months ago
pakungoda action apa kutaura kupedza nguva
gg · 7 months ago
These people are very ****. They want to draw unnecessary attention. They dont learn that sadc has nothing to do with political squabbles of member states
unru!ÿ · 7 months ago
Yemen toti pamberi naED pamberi nekusachinja SADC summit ✊️✊️✊️
...,. · 7 months ago
so south Africa is confused? they are the very ones who called for the changing of venue. those against what other south Africans had suggested are not less south African by taking a stand against zimbabwe. it is a case of journalists trying to divide south africans.
WiFi · 7 months ago
It is DA that proposed venue changes but ANC is against that
...,. · 7 months ago
they are all south Africans, and none of them less south African than the other.
Gg · 7 months ago
South Africa is a traitor it has same principle to dictate anc is like ours they share same criteria to get power
Anonymous · 7 months ago
SADC meeting once discussed and suggested that Graca Machel must be given to Mugabe, when he refused she was given to Mandela. From there I view it as a useless body. Since 1980 they have not implemented one thing.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Typical of the ignorant. SADC was not there in 1980.
Makatukura · 7 months ago
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was established on: - 1 April 1980 as the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference (SADCC) - 17 August 1992 as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) The SADCC was initially formed to: - Reduce economic dependence on apartheid South Africa - Promote economic cooperation and development among member states In 1992, the SADCC was transformed into the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a broader mandate to: - Promote economic integration and development - Enhance regional cooperation - Achieve peace and security - Strengthen democratic governance
Makatukura · 7 months ago
sadc was formed April 1980 as sadcc yakangozochinja name 1992
Makatukura · 7 months ago
Actually it was formed in 1980 April
Makatukura · 7 months ago
Yaivako ndogore rayakatotanga iroro muri muna April ichinzi SADCC ndokuzochinja 92 yava kunzi Sadc
Makatukura · 7 months ago
yaivako
Makatukura · 7 months ago
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was established on: - 1 April 1980 as the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference (SADCC) - 17 August 1992 as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) The SADCC was initially formed to: - Reduce economic dependence on apartheid South Africa - Promote economic cooperation and development among member states In 1992, the SADCC was transformed into the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a broader mandate to: - Promote economic integration and development - Enhance regional cooperation - Achieve peace and security - Strengthen democratic governance
Makatukura · 7 months ago
yaivapo
Responsible Citizen · 7 months ago
yaivako haunyare
Responsible Citizen · 7 months ago
Yaivaako
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Not true. Such are Chibuku stories
Mashoko · 7 months ago
Sure bfaubviswe muno muZimbabwe.
Z · 7 months ago
LET THE. WRITING BE READ CLEARLY, ITS THE ANC IN POWER NOT THE DA.KUISA CHIGAMBA PA BHURUKWA, HAZVIREVI KUTI CHIGAMBA NDICHO CHAVAKUTONGA BHURUKWA
👀👀 · 7 months ago
but bhurukwa hapana zvarinoita chigamba chisingazive,kana kuri kuwachwa ,zvese bhurugwa nechigamba ,kusonwa,zvese bhurugwa nechigamba.kutoiswa chigamba kureva kuti paa paane ziburi
Makatukura · 7 months ago
taura hako
Inini · 7 months ago
Ukabvisa Chigamba, Bhurukwa haripfekeki nekuti rakabvaruka
BIG T 🫖☕🍵 The only big boy in town · 7 months ago
@aka ndiye watova presdent chinotanga izvozvi
Ediots · 7 months ago
Vanoda kupiswa pavanouya MaSADC heads thats how you send a correct message coz havadi kunzwisisa.
BIG T 🫖☕🍵 The only big boy in town · 7 months ago
dzimwe nyika kureva SA ere SA inyika ere Nyika yemaLESBIAN inyika ere isodoma iyo akuna Nyika uko nonsense
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
Saka munoenda kunotsvageiko garai muno nenhamo yenyu.
june · 7 months ago
pamberi nekubatana peace begins with you and me
Maddock · 7 months ago
Dialogue I'll be done but no change, then what's the point
aka · 7 months ago
zvirikuwoneka nedzimwe nyika kt Zim Haina President
bread 🍞 winner · 7 months ago
for many years Zim hosted and assumed chairmanship of SADC yet the is no benefit to the populace only to those invited and their siblings and family whats in it for us except for them to beg in our name
Legend · 7 months ago
Kana dzimwe nyika dzakuona kuti muZimbabwe Mune kusagadzika nekuda kwepolitics Zvoreva kuti politics dzedu dzakadhakwa
WV · 7 months ago
Kusagadzikana muZimbabwe kuri papi nhaiwe?Kana vanhu vakasungwa nemhosva YOKUDA KUKONZERESA KUSAGADZIKANA MUNYIKA, ndokusagadzikana kwacho here?It is within their mandate for Police and all security forces to ensure delegates to the SADC Summit are safe from political malcontents masquerading as human rights activists. Pasi netsvuuramuromo!
Mzimba · 7 months ago
Is there peace in this country? Which country are you living? What we are currently experiencing is negative peace not positive peace. This country is totally lacking development of infrastructure, economic development, political stability, national equity, proper management of natural resource base, democracy and social justice. So you can't pretend that everything is well.
Dark horse · 7 months ago
Izvo ndozviroto manje

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