Story by Bruce Chahwanda
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has left Harare for Botswana to visit the SADC Secretariat Headquarters in Gaborone.
He was seen off at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by Vice President General (Retired) Dr Constantino Chiwenga, Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Honourable Kazembe Kazembe, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Martin Rushwaya, and service chiefs.
Chairpersons of SADC visit the SADC Secretariat Headquarters during their tenure to appreciate the work done by the Secretariat in facilitating the SADC regional integration agenda and to provide guidance on the Secretariat’s implementation of SADC Programmes.
The SADC Chairperson together with Botswana President Duma Gideon Boko will receive the SADC Headquarters building from Bongwe Investments Proprietary Limited on behalf of the SADC Heads of State and Government.
The SADC Secretariat Headquarters Building has been governed through a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Agreement involving SADC, Bongwe Investments (Proprietary) Limited (Private Party) and the Government of the Republic of Botswana as a guarantor to the PPP arrangement.
President Mnangagwa is expected to perform a ground-breaking ceremony for the commencement of the construction of the SADC Standby Force Regional Logistics Depot (RLD) at Rasesa village.
