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Speaker says Zimbabwe ready to host 57th SADC PF Plenary Assembly in Victoria Falls
WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA — The Speaker of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Honourable Advocate Jacob Francis Nzwidamilimo Mudenda has declared readiness to host the 57th Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF), which starts this week.
The picturesque tourist city of Victoria Falls will be the venue of the plenary that will take place from 2nd to 8th June 2025 under the theme “Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Effective and Efficient Parliamentary Processes in the SADC Region: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities.”
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SADC MODEL LAW ON PRISON OVERSIGHT
I. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
The SADC Parliamentary Forum is an institutional organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which is mandated to promote inter-parliamentary cooperation and convergence on issues of regional interest by inter alia developing legal normative content that can serve as benchmarking guidance for national Parliaments. The overarching objective of the SADC Model Law on Prison Oversight is to ensure that Parliaments are sufficiently empowered through legal provisions to demand accountability from the government for protecting prisoners’ rights.