South Africa (SA) is ready to host the 46th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit. This as regional leaders are gathering in Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province, to tackle key issues, from integration and infrastructure to peace and security.
Security has been tightened around the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre (ICC), ahead of the summit. It comes as the world is grappling with a number of challenges such as conflicts, geopolitical tensions and others.
The University of Johannesburg Director of the Centre for Africa-China Studies, Professor David Monyae, says the region must live up to its founding principles.
“There are a number of pockets of hotspots in the region and others that are coming, and on top of it we also have new threats, your cybersecurity as we enter the 4th industrialisation. What is key is implementation: how best to ensure that the region pulls and steps up to issues, what are the lessons,” adds Monyae.
Deputy National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili, says, “We know of the marches that are going to happen; we have a Constitution, and it provides what can be done; we will engage with organizers; our role as police is to protect everyone including the leaders of the marches.”
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