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Conclusions and Recommendations from the 2011 SADC Peoples’ Summit

On the 13th of August 2011, in the Hall of John Paul II Institute, Luanda, representatives from 13 provinces of Angola and delegations from South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho,Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe gathered to discuss issues pertaining to Land, Water and Food Security Rights in the SADC region. A number of conclusions and recommendations were captured after the deliberations.

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ANNOUNCING The SADC Peoples' Summit 2011 in Angola

As the SADC Heads of State will be meeting in Luanda, Angola in August 2011, the ordinary peoples of Southern Africa will also converge there on 13 August 2011. The Summit will be held under the auspices of the SAPSN under the theme ‘‘Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development in the Southern Africa: Towards People’s Right to Land, Water and Food”.This will be the seventh time since 2000, when the SADC peoples through social movements and civil society organisations will have organized themselves to claim a peoples’ space within the SADC processes.

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TRADE-SOUTHERN AFRICA: "Reclaim Control over EPA Talks"

WINDHOEK, Mar 29, 2010 (IPS) - Southern African governments must regain control over the negotiations on the trade deals known as economic partnership agreements (EPAs). Issues earmarked as deal-breakers should be resolved before talks to a full EPA are continued. These include limiting the EPA to a goods-only agreement and the EU dropping its demand for reciprocity.

"NGOs demand immediate end to EPAs

THE envisaged Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) the European Union wants to sign with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries would not help development in Africa but would continue the economic stranglehold former colonising Western countries still have on African resources, a regional organisation has claimed.

Namibia inspires NGOs' anti-EPA campaign

26 March 2010
WINDHOEK - Namibia has moved non-governmental organisations with her defiant stance on signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, and civil organisations are now mobilising boycotts across southern Africa against the EPA.

SAPSN Statement on the Climate Crisis

25 March 2010, Windhoek

Climate change is one of the biggest catastrophes facing humankind as result of unsustainable economic growth and consumption and production patterns, largely from the GLOBAL NORTH.? The dominant economic growth paradigm is turning the earth into a hostile environment with increasing droughts, floods, water-scarcity and many more physical disasters affecting every sector of society.