Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network

SAPSN envisions economic, environmental, social and political equity and justice in Southern Africa.

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗖 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘’𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘́

Peoples’ movements across Southern Africa have issued clear demands to SADC leaders.

📄 Read the full communiqué. https://t.co/ByYzlvZJ06

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

Solidarity means standing together, even when it is difficult.
The opening plenary of the SADC People’s Summit 2026 brought together delegations from across Southern Africa to reflect on the challenges facing our region and the need for collective action.

#SADCPeoplesSummit2026

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

SADC PEOPLE’S SUMMIT in pictures ⤵️

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU.

To all our partners who supported the Summit in different ways, thank you for standing with us & investing in the vision of a People’s SADC.

Your solidarity made this gathering possible.

✊🏾 Together we build, organise & move forward.

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

✊🏾 THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH THE PEOPLE’S SADC

The Summit may have ended, but the solidarity continues and the work goes on.

🌍 Long live Southern African solidarity.
✊🏾 Forward with the People’s SADC.

[Youth Accountability Initiative @YAI_Africa]

🌍 YOUTH ARE SHAPING THE SADC WE WANT.

At the 2026 SADC People’s Summit in Durban, Youth Accountability Initiative Africa (YAI), supported by @TrustAfrica, joined other youth organisations to deliberate, organise and articulate young people’s demands.

From governance and natural resource accountability to civic space, young people worked collectively on a Youth Communiqué to carry their priorities to SADC Heads of State.

Youth participation must mean more than being in the room. It must mean shaping decisions and demanding accountability.

We are not just the future of SADC. We are shaping its present.

#SADC2026 #SADCPeoplesSummit @OpenSociety @CIVICUSalliance @aueuyouthvoices

[WELEAD Africa @weleadteam]

🟦 #ChooseDay: Today, we celebrate and appreciate the WELEADERS who represented our organization in Durban, South Africa 🇿🇦 at the SADC People's Summit.

➡️Our representation was led by our Interim Country Manager, @GodsFlower_ , alongside our dedicated departmental leads, @TapiwaMagaisa3 , @YChogurwei , and @GumunyuTry73946 ,who led (co-facilitated) the #WhatYouthWant session at the SADC Summit 2026.

➡️This important session was made possible through our partnership with incredible allies: @YAI_Africa, @FightInequality, @SASUnion, @Zinasuzim, and @youthdecidezim.

🎯Our partners led the breakout sessions on:
1. Political - governance, accountability, civic space
2. Economic - livelihoods, food systems and green enterprise.
3. Social Cultural - Gender, Disability, Inclusion
4. Technological - Digital rights, access, online civic spaces.

🎯Our session was supported by @trocaire , @WHH_Zimbabwe , @BROT_furdiewelt @TrustAfrica .

➡️Stay tuned for more updates from these sessions, where we will amplify the voices of young people and showcase their aspirations, challenges, and solutions. Together, we are shaping a future driven by youth leadership and solidarity! #WeAreYoungPeople #WeAreWELEADAfrica #YouthPower @SAPSN99 @ActionAidZim @WalpeAcademy @WALPEAfrica @ZIMCODD1 @ASG_Africa @tapiwa_chiriga @samkebusiness @NAYOZimbabwe @YetTrust @GodsFlower_ @GlenDhliwayo @glanyline @BorisCde @johncollinsZW @africaIYP @AUEUYouthLab @euinzim @GIZAfricanUnion @RetzlaffCh @Che_Guevara_ZW @NawagunaS @ngadziore @MalemaZw @MakomboreroH @namataik_ @DougColtart @NicolaWatson13 @eva_tarie @ZimRightsLIVE @PhilFungurai @amnesty_zim @advora_1 @AnnahSande @Mhukatakunda

[WELEAD Africa @weleadteam]

🟦 In Pictures 🤌 2026 #WhatYouthWant SADC People's Summit WELEAD Delegates, capturing moments of youth leadership and engagement! #YouthPower #SADCPeopleSummit #PeoplePower
@NAYOZimbabwe @YetTrust @DeafZimTrust @NYDT1 @youth_invest @tafireitakaedza @GodsFlower_ @GlenDhliwayo @glanyline @tapiwa_chiriga @BorisCde @johncollinsZW @africaIYP @AUEUYouthLab @euinzim @GIZAfricanUnion @RetzlaffCh @Che_Guevara_ZW @NawagunaS @ngadziore @MalemaZw @ropamakumire @MakomboreroH @marko_muropa @namataik_ @_DASonline @DanaiDChirawu @nangozimbabwe @Zinasuzim @DougColtart @NicolaWatson13 @eva_tarie @ZimRightsLIVE @PhilFungurai @amnesty_zim @advora_1 @AnnahSande @Mhukatakunda @cdemlambo @WHH_Zimbabwe @trocaire @TrustAfrica @BROT_furdiewelt @SAPSN99 @WalpeAcademy @AdvMunhangu @TapiwaMagaisa3 @SoniaMarrion

[Southern Africa Resource Watch @The_SARWatch]

At the #SADCPeoplesSummit , SARW Programmes Manager Dr Kabaso Kabwe delivered the State of the SADC Region Address from a resource governance perspective.

Her challenge was clear:

The energy transition may change the strategic value of Africa’s minerals. It does not automatically change who sets the terms.

Who controls finance, processing and infrastructure?
Who captures the value?
Who carries the risk?

SARW’s response is also practical:

Africa Mining Accountability Platform (AMAP) — community evidence, accountability and remedy: https://t.co/Inm24UTHv1

African Critical Minerals Atlas (ACMA) — mapping the wider geography of extraction, corridors, infrastructure and value capture:
https://t.co/LQNG27EYbx

PAMOJA Critical Minerals Alliance — regional community and civil-society mobilisation for collective action.
https://t.co/qAJiAC33GU

The goal is economic sovereignty, beneficiation, stronger regional value chains and citizen power.

The test is whether Southern Africans are better off because those minerals were extracted.

#SARW #CriticalMinerals #JustTransition #AMAP #ACMA #PAMOJA

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

Social movements, communities, workers, women, youth and civic formations gathered in Durban for the 2026 SADC People’s Summit, convened by @SAPSN99

Read our full statement here ⤵️

https://t.co/7hS9wXCypg

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🌍 DAY 2 | THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES

Yesterday in Durban, the 2026 SADC People’s Summit brought together voices from across Southern Africa to confront the realities shaping our region.

✊🏾 The People’s SADC continues.

Stay tuned

#SADCPeoplesSummit #ThePeoplesSADC

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🎶 What’s a SADC People’s Summit without solidarity singing? ✊🏾🌍

Different countries. Different struggles. One region. One movement. One voice.

Solidarity forever! ✊🏾

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

“Our minerals must finance our development.”

At the 2026 SADC People’s Summit, SAPSN Secretary General John P. Maketo called for Southern Africa’s mineral wealth to serve the development and prosperity of its people.
Listen here ⤵️

#SADCPeoplesSummit #ThePeoplesSADC #SAPSN

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

@MasebeVaraidzo Varaidzo Zhou highlighted Zimbabwe’s lived realities, including poverty, inequality, economic distress, shrinking civic space and the growing burdens faced by ordinary people.

Another Southern Africa is possible — but it will be built by organised people.


[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

“The future of Southern Africa will not be written in corporate boardrooms or by international financial institutions. It must be written by the people of Southern Africa themselves.”

Mike Banda @MIKEMARVINBAND1

#SADCPeoplesSummit #ThePeoplesSADC #SAPSN

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

The 2026 SADC People’s Summit begins today.

Movements, civil society, workers, women, youth, communities and solidarity networks from across Southern Africa are gathering to ask a fundamental question:

What kind of SADC do our people want?

The conversation begins now.

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🔥 1 DAY TO GO!

TOMORROW, WE GATHER IN DURBAN. 🇿🇦✊🏾

Tomorrow, people’s movements, civil society, trade unions, women and youth, community leaders and activists from across Southern Africa come together for the 2026 SADC People’s Summit.

Stay tuned for updates!

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨

The countdown is almost over. In just 2 days, voices from across Southern Africa will converge for the 2026 SADC People’s Summit.

#SADCPeoplesSummit2026 #RoadToDurban2026 #SAPSN #ReclaimingOurVoice #PeoplesSADC

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🚨 3 DAYS TO GO! 🚨

The countdown is almost over. In just 3 days, voices from across Southern Africa will converge for the 2026 SADC People’s Summit.

📅 14–15 August

🔥 3 days. One region. One collective voice.

All roads lead to Durban! 🇿🇦

#SADCPeoplesSummit2026

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

⏳ 4 DAYS TO GO!

The countdown to the 2026 SADC People’s Summit is on!

From 14–15 August, people’s movements, civil society organisations, trade unions, youth, women’s movements and communities from across Southern Africa will gather in Durban, South Africa.

See you there !