https://www.salo.org.za/countries/sadc-region/Recent content in SADC region on Southern African Liaison OfficeHugo -- gohugo.ioen-zaFri, 20 Mar 2026 09:43:36 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/the-africa-we-want-zimbabwe-and-the-sadc-chairship-the-role-of-recs-in-times-of-instability-the-zimbabwean-and-kenyan-experiences-11-july-2024/Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:39:00 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/the-africa-we-want-zimbabwe-and-the-sadc-chairship-the-role-of-recs-in-times-of-instability-the-zimbabwean-and-kenyan-experiences-11-july-2024/Watch here: https://youtu.be/g7q9b8pb0dQ In August 2024 Zimbabwe will be hosting the SADC summit and taking over the chairship of SADC. Almost one hundred people have been arrested in the last few weeks, in a clampdown on civic and opposition activists ahead of the summit.https://www.salo.org.za/policy-brief-on-multi-stakeholder-workshop-on-regional-peace-and-security/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:49:24 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/policy-brief-on-multi-stakeholder-workshop-on-regional-peace-and-security/On 26 November 2018, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) together with the Norwegian Embassy hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Regional Peace and Security Issues’. The Minister of Small and Medium Business Development and Chair of ANC International Relations Sub-committee, Ambassador Lindiwe Zulu, delivered the keynote address.https://www.salo.org.za/regional-peace-and-security-issues-jhb-multi-stakeholder-workshop/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:53:35 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/regional-peace-and-security-issues-jhb-multi-stakeholder-workshop/On 26 November 2018, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) together with the Norwegian Embassy hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Regional Peace and Security Issues’. The Minister of Small and Medium Business Development and Chair of ANC International Relations Sub-committee, Ambassador Lindiwe Zulu, delivered the keynote address.https://www.salo.org.za/lesotho-end-culture-of-impunity-to-reverse-recent-spike-in-human-rights-violations/Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:29:32 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/lesotho-end-culture-of-impunity-to-reverse-recent-spike-in-human-rights-violations/Amnesty International’s Human Rights Agenda for the New Lesotho Authorities: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr33/6468/2017/en/ AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 14 June 2017 Lesotho: End****culture of impunity to reverse recent spike in human rights violations Lesotho’s newly elected government must act swiftly to ensure accountability for past human rights violations and end the spike in abuses recorded in recent years, Amnesty International said today.https://www.salo.org.za/south-africa-zimbabwe-dialogue-informal-economy-and-cross-border-trade-17-january-2017/Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:12:26 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/south-africa-zimbabwe-dialogue-informal-economy-and-cross-border-trade-17-january-2017/Despite its significance within SADC and growing evidence of its contribution to poverty alleviation and food security, informal cross border trade (ICBT), is yet to occupy its rightful place in regional policy making. Discussions on regional integration remain largely biased towards big business.https://www.salo.org.za/movie-migration-and-development-friedrich-ebert-stiftung/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:32:03 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/movie-migration-and-development-friedrich-ebert-stiftung/International experts shed light on the migration-development nexus, for example with regard to migration flows in and from the Middle East and South Africa. They highlight the diversity of reasons for people to leave their homes as well as their courage to do so, and point to political shortcomings and perspectives.https://www.salo.org.za/brain-drain-impoverishes-africa-says-committee/Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:48:28 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/brain-drain-impoverishes-africa-says-committee/Parliament, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 – The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation says it is time Africa highlighted in policy formulation the challenge posed by the brain drain, which continues to impoverish the continent. The call follows a briefing the Committee received on Wednesday from the South African Council on International Relations (SACOIR) where it was highlighted that the brain drain, among other challenges, erodes professional skills, knowledge and the capacity in Africa.https://www.salo.org.za/president-jacob-zuma-remarks-to-sa-france-business-forum/Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:33:59 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/president-jacob-zuma-remarks-to-sa-france-business-forum/The Presidency, in Paris, France, 11 July 2016 President Jacob Zuma On the Occasion of the State Visit to France: Remarks to the SA-France Business Forum *MinistersThe President of MEDEFLeadership of Business Unity South Africa and the Black Business Council,**Captains of Industry from South Africa and France,**Excellencies Ambassadors,**Senior officials,*Ladies and Gentlemenhttps://www.salo.org.za/eu-signs-economic-partnership-agreement-with-southern-african-countries/Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:29:30 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/eu-signs-economic-partnership-agreement-with-southern-african-countries/The European Union and six countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) today signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the first of its kind between the EU and an African region pursuing economic integration. The signature took place in Kasane, Botswana.https://www.salo.org.za/president-jacob-zuma-to-visit-lesotho/Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:57:14 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/president-jacob-zuma-to-visit-lesotho/The Presidency, Pretoria, Media Statement, 7 June 2016 His Excellency President Jacob Zuma will travel to Lesotho on 9 June 2016 to consult on matters relating to the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The consultations are a follow up to the discussions held by the SACU Heads of State and Government during the inauguration of the new SACU Headquarters building in Windhoek, Namibia, on 12 November 2015.https://www.salo.org.za/op-ed-an-african-identity-we-all-aspire-to/Thu, 26 May 2016 17:11:17 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/op-ed-an-african-identity-we-all-aspire-to/SADC BIG Campaign Coordinator Nkateko Chauke explores how we can achieve pan-Africanist ideals through the introduction of a universal cash transfer, predominantly funded through extractive industries, in an op-ed published by Daily Maverick today. To read the full article, please click here.https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no-132015-china-africa-focac-summit-how-china-can-help-african-countries-advance-peace-in-the-2030-agenda-by-richard-smith-southern-african-liaison-office-salo-showers-mawo/Wed, 02 Dec 2015 08:12:40 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no-132015-china-africa-focac-summit-how-china-can-help-african-countries-advance-peace-in-the-2030-agenda-by-richard-smith-southern-african-liaison-office-salo-showers-mawo/The sixth meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation provides an opportunity to deepen partnership, address collective challenges, and enable African countries to make significant progress towards the peace-related targets in the 2030 Agenda. Download PDF here: DO13of2015https://www.salo.org.za/mozambique-repeals-colonial-provisions-that-threatened-the-liberty-of-its-lgbti-citizens-by-howard-smith-21st-july-2015/Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:24:29 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/mozambique-repeals-colonial-provisions-that-threatened-the-liberty-of-its-lgbti-citizens-by-howard-smith-21st-july-2015/Mozambique’s new Penal Code, which came into effect in June this year after being approved by the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, last year, is a welcome step forward towards a country free from discrimination that the founders of the nation dreamed and fought for.https://www.salo.org.za/salo-exhibition-on-africa-day-at-the-pan-african-parliament/Sat, 30 May 2015 10:22:24 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/salo-exhibition-on-africa-day-at-the-pan-african-parliament/On Monday, 25 May the Pan African Parliament (PAP) hosted an Africa Day celebration under the theme “2015 The Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”. The event was chaired by Advocate Madasa and Dr Nkosazana Zuma Dlamini was the keynote speaker.https://www.salo.org.za/no-52015-a-critique-of-the-current-regional-approach-to-human-security-within-the-context-of-informality-and-a-pervasive-artisanal-and-small-scale-mining-asm-sector-by-tamara-naidoo-and-showe/Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:38:12 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/no-52015-a-critique-of-the-current-regional-approach-to-human-security-within-the-context-of-informality-and-a-pervasive-artisanal-and-small-scale-mining-asm-sector-by-tamara-naidoo-and-showe/The Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s human security infrastructure embraces the notions of freedom from want and fear as represented in the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report (1994) . However looking into SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) on socio-economic dimensions and the Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ (SIPO) on peace and security, the infrastructure tends to focus heavily on the development and support of formal markets, essentially neglecting another core aspect of African life, the informal sector.https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no-42015-peace-and-security-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda-progress-and-prospects-by-showers-mawowa/Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:12:12 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/dialogue-online-no-42015-peace-and-security-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda-progress-and-prospects-by-showers-mawowa/Though the connection between peace and development is commonly acknowledged, the inclusion of peace and security in the emerging post-2015 development framework has been one of most contested propositions. The consensus around 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets including Goal 16 on “peaceful and inclusive societies” and provision of “access to justice” by the Open Working Group (OWG) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on the 29th of July 2014 and the subsequent endorsement of the SDGs by the UN Secretary General’s Synthesis Report of 4 December 2014, is a remarkable achievement for advocates of peace and justice issues in the post-2015 development framework.https://www.salo.org.za/an-african-driven-post-2015-development-agenda-opportunities-for-peace-and-human-security/Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:35:36 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/an-african-driven-post-2015-development-agenda-opportunities-for-peace-and-human-security/Presentation at the ASC - 20th August 2014 at the University of Johannesburg, By Showers Mawowa, SALO Download presentation below:https://www.salo.org.za/official-announcement-of-presidential-elections-results-malawi/Sat, 31 May 2014 11:37:39 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/official-announcement-of-presidential-elections-results-malawi/Official results of Malawi elections where Peter Mutharika was declared winner. Final presidential results statement Presidential - National Results - Malawihttps://www.salo.org.za/common-african-position-cap-on-the-post-2015-development-agenda/Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:54:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/common-african-position-cap-on-the-post-2015-development-agenda/** “Preamble: We, Heads of State and Government of the African Union assembled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the 22nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on 31 January 2014, NOTE: The participatory approach that led to the elaboration of the Common African Position (CAP) on the post-2015 Development Agenda involving stakeholders at the national, regional and continental levels among the public and private sectors, parliamentarians, civil society organizations (CSOs), including women and youth associations, and academia.