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SADC anti-corruption watchdog takes shape

Despite a nine-year wait for the establishment of the Southern African Anti-Corruption Committee (SACC), members of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) have demonstrated political will towards the committee’s establishment, a director within the SADC Secretariat has said.

At a meeting in Gaborone this week, Tanki Mothae, the director of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, said member states had been pushing for SACC and had shown their commitment by signing the SADC Protocol Against Corruption in 2001.

The Gaborone meeting, attended by heads of anti-corruption agencies from SADC member states, was held to recommend which SADC organ would house the anti-corruption committee.

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