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SADC does not lack frameworks. It has a Vision running to 2050, a decade-long strategic plan running to 2030, and now, out of the 43rd Ordinary Summit held in Luanda on 17 August 2023, a fresh theme - "Human and Financial Capital: The Key Drivers for Sustainable...
A stone that took a billion years to form now competes with one grown in weeks. In August 2023 Botswana’s president named that contest as a threat to the national economy.
The Southern African Development Community does not lack instruments. It has a Protocol on Finance and Investment dating to 2006, a Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan running to 2030 with a budget envelope of more than US$50 billion, an Industrialisation...
Lawmakers discussed a Constitutional Court in March 2023, with some urging a non-partisan approach and framing stronger rule of law as a positive signal to investors.
Some residents refused indoor residual spraying even as malaria cases rose in March 2023, with misinformation and a shifting climate widening the risk.
Regional blocs accumulate instruments the way filing cabinets accumulate folders — a protocol here, a strategy there, each with its own preamble about integration and shared prosperity. The test of any single instrument is not how it reads but where it sits in the...
SADC has, over the past eight years, built a surprisingly dense legal architecture around one narrow question: how does a seed variety, a plant breeder's right or a pest-control strategy cross a border inside the region without being re-litigated in every...
Regional blocs tend to be judged by their summits, which is a category error. A summit is a moment of ratification, not the substance of integration; the substance sits in the framework documents that summits approve and then leave for institutions and member states...
The SADC Protocol on Trade, signed in 1996, prohibits quota restrictions among member states and commits signatories to eliminate existing non-tariff barriers between them. Twenty-six years later, SADC's own institutional record estimates the tariff-equivalent...