
Hon. Hidipo Hamutenya (right), Chairperson of SADC Council of
Ministers and Namibia's Minister of Trade and Industry chatting
with Mozambique's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,
Hon. Leornado Simão during the SADC Council of Ministers Meeting
held at Midrand (Johannesburg), South Africa in February 2001. |

SADC Ministers and SADC Executive Secretary, Dr. Prega Ramsamy (centre with
Hamutenya) posing for a group photograph during the Midrand meeting. |

During the Midrand meeting, SADC Sector Coordinators
had an opportunity to brief the media on their work.
From left: Lindie (Finance and Investment), Shepard
Nyaruwuta (Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern
Africa), Fowdar (Tourism), Eric Msolomba (Director-
SATCC), and Pinto (Chairperson-SATCC). |

From left: Leonard Chitambo (Employment and Labour), Dr. Renato Matusse
(Culture, Information and Sport Sector) and Dr. Thuthula Balfour (Health
Sector).

Part of the large media contingent that covered the Council of Ministers
meeting held at Midrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in February
2001. |

President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, who
is also the Chairperson of SADC, flanked
by officials at the opening of the SADC
Parliamentary Forum House in Windhoek,
Namibia in March 2001. Secretary
General of the SADC Parliamentary
Forum, Dr Kasuka Mutukwa, is at right. |

The Secretary General of the Organisation
of African Unity (OAU), Dr. Salim Ahmed
Salim (centre) was on a state visit to
Botswana in February 2001. SADC
Executive Secretary, Dr. Prega Ramsamy
(second right) and Mrs. Ramsamy ((left)
hosted a dinner in Dr. Salim's honour
and were joined by former President of
Botswana and Facilitator of Inter-
Congolese Dialogue, Sir Ketumile Masire
(second left) and the Namibian High
Commissioner to Botswana, H.E. Joshua
Hoabeb (with his back to the camera). |

DRC President Joseph Kabila (centre) joins President Robert Mugabe
and his wife at a dinner hosted in his honour during a recent visit to
Zimbabwe |

SADC Executive Secretary, Dr. Ramsamy (left), Isaac Kaulinge (Secretary to
the Namibian Presidency) and Justice Johan Strijdom of Namibia finalising
documentation for Dr. Ramsamy™s letter of appointment immediately after
he was sworn in as the fourth Executive Secretary of SADC in Windhoek in
March 2001. |