Xolisa Makaya Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/xolisa-makaya/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Xolisa Makaya Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/xolisa-makaya/ 32 32 Zuma to become next SADC chairman – if he’s still President https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/zuma-become-next-sadc-chairman-hes-still-president/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/zuma-become-next-sadc-chairman-hes-still-president/ Next month’s SADC summit in Pretoria will be a special farewell event for Angolan President Eduardo Dos Santos, whose stepping down a few days later after 37 years at the helm. It will also see President Jacob Zuma assume the chairmanship of the 15-nation regional body -provided of course that he still South Africa’s head […]

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]]> Next month’s SADC summit in Pretoria will be a special farewell event for Angolan President Eduardo Dos Santos, whose stepping down a few days later after 37 years at the helm.

It will also see President Jacob Zuma assume the chairmanship of the 15-nation regional body -provided of course that he still South Africa’s head of state.

Briefing the media ahead of the SADC summit  on August 19 and 20, Deputy Director  General for Africa at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation Xolisa Makaya played a straight bat to my question about what would happen if President Jacob Zuma was defeated in a  parliamentary no confidence debate ten days before the gathering.

Is the SADC chairmanship passed to heads of state. If Jacob Zuma is defeated in the parliamentary no confidence motion on August would that chairmanship automatically pass on to his successor, I asked?

“Exactly that,” Makaya replied. “We don’t want to comment further, but exactly that.”

Makaya confirms  that the chairmanship of the regional body passes to heads of state and not to individuals.

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