Southern African People's Solidarity Network

Southern African People's Solidarity Network Fighting for justice, equality, and people’s power in Southern Africa!

Since 1999, SAPSN has united grassroots movements, civil society, and activists to challenge economic injustices, inequality, and corporate-driven globalization.

WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU.The 2026 SADC People’s Summit brought together voices, movements and organisations ...
20/08/2026

WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU.

The 2026 SADC People’s Summit brought together voices, movements and organisations from across Southern Africa and behind this collective effort were partners who believed in the importance of creating a space for people’s voices, solidarity and collective action.

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

Your solidarity made this gathering possible.

Together, we build. Together, we organise. Together, we move forward.



✊🏾 THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH THE PEOPLE’S SADCThe 2026 SADC People’s Summit in Durban brought together people, movemen...
20/08/2026

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

The 2026 SADC People’s Summit in Durban brought together people, movements, organisations and communities from across Southern Africa in a spirit of solidarity, dialogue and collective action.

To every participant, speaker, facilitator, organiser, volunteer and supporter who contributed to the Summit — thank you for bringing your voice, experience and energy to this important gathering.

Together, we confronted the realities of debt, inequality, conflict, extractivism and climate change, while imagining a more just and people-centred future for our region.

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.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗖 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘’𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘́The Southern African People's Solidarity Network has released the 2026 SADC Peo...
18/08/2026

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗖 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘’𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘́

The Southern African People's Solidarity Network has released the 2026 SADC People’s Summit Communiqué, adopted on 16 August 2026 in Durban, South Africa.

The communiqué brings together the demands and priorities of peoples’ movements, civil society organisations, women’s and feminist movements, workers, farmers, informal traders, youth, persons with disabilities, human rights defenders, faith communities and other civic formations from across Southern Africa.

At a time of deep economic, social and ecological pressure, the People’s Summit called for debt justice, economic sovereignty, people-centred mineral governance, climate justice, women’s and children’s rights, decent work, freedom of movement, democracy, peace, quality public services and food sovereignty.

The message to SADC Heads of State and Government and regional institutions is clear: regional commitments must translate into measurable action that improves the lives of ordinary people.

The peoples of Southern Africa are not spectators in regional integration. We are its citizens, workers, producers and communities.

From Durban to action, SAPSN will continue to organise across borders, engage governments and regional institutions, defend communities and hold public and corporate power accountable.

Another Southern Africa is possible.

📄 Read the full 2026 SADC People’s Summit Communiqué.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wkg6a3pw-OCMcYaZdlMFq3wMYIfI6YQ0/view?usp=sharing

Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe Equality Now Norwegian Church Aid Advocacy Programme Africa Oxfam in Southern Africa Global Platform Zimbabwe African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) SADC Zamsof Economic Justice for Women Project

We, representatives of social movements, community organisations, women, workers, youth, farmers, informal traders, pers...
16/08/2026

We, representatives of social movements, community organisations, women, workers, youth, farmers, informal traders, persons with disabilities, faith communities and other civic formations, gathered in Durban for the 2026 SADC People’s Summit convened by the Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network (SAPSN) under the theme “The people’s SADC: strengthening people’s solidarity in a polycrisis of debt, inequality, conflict, extractivism
and climate change. ”

Read our full statement here ⤵️

https://zimcodd.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-SADC-PEOPLES-SUMMIT-PRESS-STATEMENT.pdf

Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe
Norwegian Church Aid Advocacy Programme Africa
Equality Now
Zamsof
MAYO Zimbabwe
TrustAfrica
Oxfam in Southern Africa
Hivos
ActionAid Zimbabwe
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
Economic Justice for Women Project
Open Society Foundations
Green Governance ZwSADC

DAY 2 | FROM CONVERSATIONS TO COLLECTIVE ACTION 🗣️✊🏾Day 2 of the SADC People’s Summit brought critical conversations to ...
15/08/2026

DAY 2 | FROM CONVERSATIONS TO COLLECTIVE ACTION 🗣️✊🏾

Day 2 of the SADC People’s Summit brought critical conversations to the centre of the room from critical minerals and extractivism to regional peace and security, youth agency, the protection of women and girls, and the struggle for a just energy transition.

Across the different Solidarity Indabas, participants interrogated the systems shaping our region and, importantly, asked what it will take to move from concerns to concrete action.

The conversations are not ending here.

Key issues and demands emerging from the discussions will feed into the Summit Declaration strengthening a collective call for a more just, inclusive and people-centred SADC.

The People’s SADC is being shaped by the people.

Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe Equality Now Centre for Natural Resource GovernanceZamsofSADCTax Justice Network AfricaHivosAfrican Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)Oxfam in Southern AfricaActionAid ZimbabweTrustAfrica

🌍 DAY 2 | THE CONVERSATION CONTINUESYesterday in Durban, the 2026 SADC People’s Summit brought together voices from acro...
15/08/2026

🌍 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.

We reflected on debt, inequality, extractivism, climate change, civic space, gender justice and the future of our regional integration.

We heard a clear message: Southern Africa cannot build a just future while the people remain excluded from decisions about their economies, resources and future.

Today, we move from reflection to deeper conversations, collective demands and action.

✊🏾 The People’s SADC continues.

Stay tuned

Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe Equality Now Norwegian Church Aid Advocacy Programme Africa Centre for Natural Resource Governance

14/08/2026

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

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

Solidarity forever! ✊🏾
Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe Equality NowNorwegian Church Aid Advocacy Programme AfricaMAYO Zimbabwe ZamsofSADCHivosTax Justice Network AfricaEconomic Justice for Women ProjectAfrican Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)

14/08/2026

“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.

Our natural resources must contribute to jobs, public services, local industries and sustainable development — not deepen inequality or leave communities behind.

🎥 Listen to his remarks here as he makes the case for resource justice and people-centred development.

Our minerals. Our development. Our future. ✊🏾🌍

Varaidzo Zhou highlighted Zimbabwe’s lived realities, including poverty, inequality, economic distress, shrinking civic ...
14/08/2026

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

Her call was clear: a people-driven SADC that confronts illegitimate debt, resists extractivism, advances climate justice, protects civic space and places human dignity at the centre.

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

Fight Inequality Alliance- Zimbabwe Centre for Natural Resource Governance Equality Now Norwegian Church Aid Advocacy Programme Africa

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