SADC to suspend Lesotho

President Ian Khama and Phakalitha Mosisili at a previous SADC meeting. PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME
President Ian Khama and Phakalitha Mosisili at a previous SADC meeting. PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME

The Summit, which was to begin with a session open to the media at 10 am started over an hour late with only the Heads of State or their representatives in a closed session meeting. The disruption in the programme was partly due to the late arrival of the focal person, Lesotho Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili.

As he walked out of the meeting to head to the airport back to Lesotho, Mosisili looked angry, something that raised greater interest among the information-starved contingent of local and international media outside the meeting room.

President Ian Khama, who is also the SADC chairman and was chairing the Troika, also left the meeting venue immediately after. The relief to the frustrated media came from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists, who were briefed by their country’s delegation, led by President Jacob Zuma.

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