{"id":41670,"date":"2026-08-06T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41670"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:38:45","slug":"sa-to-drive-sadc-development-agenda","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-drive-sadc-development-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"SA to drive SADC development agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa (SA) says its upcoming Chairpersonship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will focus on accelerating regional development through stronger political leadership and the implementation of key programmes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">International Relations and Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola says Heads of State and government will champion priority areas including infrastructure, industrialisation, agriculture, mining, resource mobilisation and social development as part of SADC&#8217;s vision 2050 and the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was briefing the media on SA&#8217;s preparations to host the 46th SADC Summit in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The briefing was convened to update the media on SA&#8217;s key foreign policy priorities and upcoming international engagements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A major focus was the country&#8217;s preparations to host the 46th SADC Summit in Durban later this month, where SA will assume the SADC Chairpersonship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Lamola outlined the regional priorities that will shape SA&#8217;s leadership, including infrastructure development, industrialisation, agriculture and strengthening regional integration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The summit will kick off with a lecture by SA President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41670","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Southern African Development Community","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41672,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41670\/revisions\/41672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}