Category: Decision Makers

Dar es Salaam. The concept of politics without power is as difficult to understand as the notion of an ocean without water, according to some academics. Whenever the subject of excessive presidential powers is raised, therefore, it has to be seen in light of that perspective. In many democracies around the world, there is usually some concern that too much... Read More

The UN’s Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has spent her entire time in office as an active accomplice in the genocide being conducted by the western funded Ethiopian regime against the people of the Ogaden. A report on the genocide in the Ogaden remains under lock and key in Navi Pillay’s office under her direct order. The investigations this... Read More

Joint Statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), SADC Lawyers Association (SADC LA) and Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) at the conclusion of the 32nd SADC Summit The ICJ, SADC LA and SALC express their deepest disappointment at the decision taken by the SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government on the SADC Tribunal. The Summit’s Final Communiqué explains... Read More

JOHANNESBURG – 7 August, 2012: A critical meeting of regional civil society organisations is underway in Maputo ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government summit on the 17-18th of August. Organised by the SADC Council of Non-Governmental Organisations, the Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council and the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa, the 8th Southern... Read More

Luanda - The member States of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) need USD 42.3 billion to implement 54 projects in 15 years. . Read More

This paper argues that pan-Africanism is best seen and articulated as a flexible, inclusive, dynamic and complex aspiration in identity making and belonging. The micro and macro level importance of pan-Africanism, makes writing it both abstract and grounded, local and global, just as the unity, solidarities and relevance it seeks and promotes. . Read More