{"id":41788,"date":"2026-08-07T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41788"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:48:43","slug":"sa-begins-sadc-leadership-with-senior-officials-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-begins-sadc-leadership-with-senior-officials-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"SA begins SADC leadership with Senior Officials Chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">South Africa (SA) has kick-started its Southern African Development Community (SADC) leadership by assuming the Standing Committee of Senior Officials Chairmanship.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe handover from Madagascar was in Durban,\u00a0Kwazulu-Natal Province, where the main summit will take place on August 17.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SA served as the\u00a0SADC\u00a0interim Chairperson after a coup in Madagascar where their President fled the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">International Relations and Co-operation deputy Director General, Ambassador,\u00a0Tebogo\u00a0Seokolo\u00a0says they have now received the tools of trade to pursue the dream of African unity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41788","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA has kick-started its SADC leadership","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41788","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41789,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41788\/revisions\/41789"}],"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=41788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}