President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to guide the South African delegation to the thirty eighth Bizarre Session of the Meeting of African Heads of State and Authorities.
This gathering of continental management will happen this weekend, 15 and 16 February 2025.
The Meeting will happen beneath the AU theme for 2025, “Justice for African and Folks of African Descent By way of Reparations”.
On this context, it’s anticipated that the Summit will overview and assess what has been achieved in Africa’s efforts in direction of the attainment of lengthy overdue justice and reparations and a long time of colonialism and apartheid, slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave commerce.
One of many extremely anticipated obligations of the forthcoming Meeting shall be to elect and appoint the AU Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson.
The Meeting takes place towards a backdrop of a myriad of challenges, together with threats to democratic governance, peace and safety, via unconstitutional adjustments of presidency and post-election violence.
The Continent additionally suffers from inter and intra-state conflicts, terrorism and violent extremism, poverty, meals and power insecurity, the impression of local weather change, insufficient infrastructure, low productiveness, commerce boundaries and continued dependence on exterior help and markets.
The Meeting will elect new Members of the AU Peace and Safety Council (AUPSC) to exchange the present members, whose three-year phrases are set to run out.
South Africa is concerned in numerous peacekeeping and mediation efforts throughout the Continent, notably of the AU Advert-hoc Excessive-Degree Committee on South Sudan; the AU Advert-Hoc Excessive-Degree Committee on Libya, and has deployed troops as a part of the SADC Mission within the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC).
President Ramaphosa shall be accompanied by the Minister of Worldwide Relations and Cooperation, Mr Ronald Lamola; the Minister of Defence and Army Veterans, Ms Angie Motshekga; Minister of Justice and Constitutional Improvement, Ms Mmamoloko Kubayi; Minister of Commerce, Business and Competitors, Mr Parks Tau; Minister within the Presidency, Ms Khumbudzo Ntshavheni; Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Atmosphere, Mr Dion George; Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina and Minister of Public Service and Administration, Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
