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Mwenyekiti wa AU na Rais wa Afrika Kusini ndugu Cyrill Ramaphosa amelazimika kuitisha mkutano wa mataifa jirani ambayo pia ni wanachama wa jumuiya ya SADC.
Mkutano huo umefanyika kwa njia ya video. Nchi zilizoshiriki ni Afrika Kusini, Angola, Lesotho, Eswatini Msumbiji, Namibia na Zimbabwe.
MEI 09, 2020:
UFAFANUZI WATOLEWA NA KATIBU WA SADC
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, said there was nothing alarming in a meeting called by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss Covid-19.
She said that the emergency meeting only involved countries neighboring South Africa and didn’t carry any SADC agenda. Dr Tax’s remarks comes barely two days after a video clip went viral on social media showing President Ramaphosa chairing a video conference with some heads of the SADC member states.
In the video clip, President Ramaphosa informed the fellow leaders that he had called the meeting after unsuccessfully seeking for one from the SADC chairman President John Magufuli. He revealed about his communication with President Magufuli on the need to hold a Covid-19 meeting, saying, Magufuli only asked them to write and send their opinions.
Ramaphosa said it was after that that he thought of holding a meeting with SA’s neighbours.
Dr Tax said that what Ramaphosa was referring to was not about a conference of SADC. “That was his (Ramaphosa’s) meeting with his neighbouring countries. He had a private agenda,” said Dr Tax.
When asked about Ramaphosa’s reported failure to have Magufuli call for a conference meeting of SADC Heads of State, she responded that all applications for such a meeting must pass through her office.
“How come I was not informed? A meeting of SADC without the executive secretary and without its secretariat? SADC is an institution with procedures to be followed,” she said.
Dr Tax, a Tanzanian, added that SADC meetings are called by the executive secretary after consultations with the chairman. She said the meetings usually involved 16 member states of the bloc, with a 2/3 quorum. Ramaphosa held a conference of eight countries.
During the 39th summit of the SADC Heads of State, on August 17-18 last year in Dar es salaam, Namibian President Hage Geingob handed over the SADC chairmanship to President Magufuli. He has three months to end his one year term.
Ramaphosa told the meeting SA which was bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic thought it wise to engage the leaders on a common strategy. He briefed his counterparts on other developments in the continent to mitigate effects of the pandemic.
Mkutano huo umefanyika kwa njia ya video. Nchi zilizoshiriki ni Afrika Kusini, Angola, Lesotho, Eswatini Msumbiji, Namibia na Zimbabwe.
MEI 09, 2020:
UFAFANUZI WATOLEWA NA KATIBU WA SADC
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, said there was nothing alarming in a meeting called by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss Covid-19.
She said that the emergency meeting only involved countries neighboring South Africa and didn’t carry any SADC agenda. Dr Tax’s remarks comes barely two days after a video clip went viral on social media showing President Ramaphosa chairing a video conference with some heads of the SADC member states.
In the video clip, President Ramaphosa informed the fellow leaders that he had called the meeting after unsuccessfully seeking for one from the SADC chairman President John Magufuli. He revealed about his communication with President Magufuli on the need to hold a Covid-19 meeting, saying, Magufuli only asked them to write and send their opinions.
Ramaphosa said it was after that that he thought of holding a meeting with SA’s neighbours.
Dr Tax said that what Ramaphosa was referring to was not about a conference of SADC. “That was his (Ramaphosa’s) meeting with his neighbouring countries. He had a private agenda,” said Dr Tax.
When asked about Ramaphosa’s reported failure to have Magufuli call for a conference meeting of SADC Heads of State, she responded that all applications for such a meeting must pass through her office.
“How come I was not informed? A meeting of SADC without the executive secretary and without its secretariat? SADC is an institution with procedures to be followed,” she said.
Dr Tax, a Tanzanian, added that SADC meetings are called by the executive secretary after consultations with the chairman. She said the meetings usually involved 16 member states of the bloc, with a 2/3 quorum. Ramaphosa held a conference of eight countries.
During the 39th summit of the SADC Heads of State, on August 17-18 last year in Dar es salaam, Namibian President Hage Geingob handed over the SADC chairmanship to President Magufuli. He has three months to end his one year term.
Ramaphosa told the meeting SA which was bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic thought it wise to engage the leaders on a common strategy. He briefed his counterparts on other developments in the continent to mitigate effects of the pandemic.
