Story by Oleen Ndori, Foreign Desk Editor
The Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), President Emmerson Mnangagwa will this Friday join President Duma Boko of Botswana in visiting the SADC Secretariat Headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana.
The visit is customary, as Chairpersons of SADC visit the Secretariat Headquarters during their tenure to appreciate the work done in facilitating the SADC regional integration agenda and to provide guidance on the Secretariat’s implementation of the community’s Programmes.
During the visit, the SADC Secretariat, Chairperson and President Duma Boko will receive the SADC Headquarters building from Bongwe Investments Proprietary Limited on behalf of the SADC Heads of State and Government.
President Mnangagwa, accompanied by President Boko, will also perform a ground-breaking ceremony for the commencement of the construction of the SADC Standby Force Regional Logistics Depot (RLD) at Rasesa village in the Kgatleng District.
The logistics depot will serve as a storage for materials, equipment and end-user stocks for use by the SADC Standby Force when undertaking mandated peace support and humanitarian missions.
President Mnangagwa assumed the SADC chairmanship on the 17th August this year during the 44th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government that was held in Harare.
