Southern Africa People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN)

As a network of civil society organizations engaged on the substance and effects of national, regional, continental and international economic agreements and institutions, we are also conscious of the contradictions between

Our concerns with economic development and global and national equity and
The lack of human rights guarantees, democracy and peace in our countries.

On the basis of [...]

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have produced their Poverty Reduction Strategy Programmes (PRSPs) within the context of corporate globalisation. This process is being driven by and for the giant transnational corporations (YNCs) and global financial forces. These utilise the economic, political and military powers of their governments, and the World [...]

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Munyaradzi Gwisai of the International Socialist Organisation in Zimbabwe: Global crisis may hit Africa through debt repayments.
MANZINI (Swaziland), Oct 25 (IPS) - The collapse of the financial markets may force the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to come down hard on African countries to [...]

La creación del área de libre comercio de la Comunidad de Desarrollo de África Austral (SADC) ubica a la región un paso más cerca de una unión aduanera para 2010. Pero la posición de Sudáfrica, en aparente privilegio, causa recelo.
Ciudad del Cabo. El área de libre comercio para Africa Austral busca “actuar como catalizador para [...]

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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 25 (IPS) - The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that Southern African Development Community (SADC) governments agreed to will boost large South African companies’ reach in the region at the expense of small-scale producers and shops.
This is according to civil society organisations belonging to the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN).
SAPSN contends [...]

More than four hundred representatives of Social Movements ,labor organizations, economic justice networks , faith and community based and youth organizations , developmental, health environmental, human Rights and other NGOs that work closely with them gathered in Gauteng South Africa to discuss our common concerns and present our Demands and alternatives to the governments of SADC meeting here at this time.

By RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Bridgetown, Barbados - As Barbados proceeds with local arrangements to host the signing ceremony for the full Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), there continues to be uncertainty about how many of the 15 CARIFORUM group of countries (Caricom plus the Dominican Republic) will [...]

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Representatives of NGOs, under the aegis of South ern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN), who met in Gauteng, South Afric a , over the weekend, have presented an eight-point demand to the governments of t h e Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The SAPSN is comprised of social movements, labour organisations, economic [...]

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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (IPS) - Southern African non-governmental organisations have put forward demands to their governments in resistance to the continuing talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.
Organisations forming the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) took part in a street protest [...]

As the SADC Heads of State will be meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2008, the ordinary peoples of Southern Africa will also converge in Johannesburg, South Africa from the 14th – 17th of August 2008 under the auspices of the Southern Africa Peoples’ Solidarity Network (SAPSN) to reclaim SADC for peoples’ development andsolidarity.