Overview
- The 46th Ordinary Summit in eThekwini concluded on Monday with President Cyril Ramaphosa formally accepting the SADC chair and leaders endorsing decisions to move from declarations to implementation.
- Summit leaders agreed on an agenda of corridors, one‑stop border posts, beneficiation of critical minerals and infrastructure that Ramaphosa said will prioritize creating jobs and expanding regional value chains.
- South Africa set concrete targets for its chairship including raising intra‑SADC trade from about 20 percent toward 50 percent and increasing electricity access toward roughly 85 percent by 2030.
- Member states committed to operational steps to mobilise finance, notably proceeding without undue delay to operationalise the SADC Regional Development Fund and advancing the Standby Force regional logistics depot in Botswana.
- Heightened local security measures in Durban restricted planned anti‑immigration marches to a designated Speaker’s Corner and the summit placed migration on the regional agenda as leaders urged cooperative approaches to its drivers while reaffirming collective responses to crises in eastern DRC, Cabo Delgado and Madagascar.