PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday travel to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to participate in the forty-second Ordinary Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of Heads State and Government.
The summit will take place on August 17 and 18 and regional leaders will deliberate on the region’s development under the theme “Promoting industrialisation through, agro-processing, mineral beneficiation, and regional value chains for inclusive and resilient economic growth”.
DRC President Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo will take over the chairpersonship of SADC from Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera.
Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said the SADC member States will be updated on the progress made in the implementation of strategic policies and previous Summit decisions, since the last meeting in 2021.
He said the theme of this year’s summit underscored efforts to strengthen the implementation of the 2020 – 2030 SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan.
South Africa leverages the SADC as its primary foreign policy vehicle for achieving regional
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