The strides we include now made at some stage in our first three years include laid a firm basis for the contemporary advances we ought to the least bit times and ought to invent at some stage in the following years.
Esteemed Colleagues
As we start this 2d Day’s Session of our Summit, that will presumably additionally honest straddle the stay of the Third year of the Spaces of Solidarity as a Forum, I’m privileged to hiss that as a other folks, we include now every motive to be proud of our historic efforts in the direction of setting a collective agenda in response to the challenges impacting on expression in SADC.
It’s even extra historic for Namibia, the birthplace of the Windhoek Declaration on Diverse and Plural Media and its successor, Windhoek +30–Info as a public factual.
The strides we include now made at some stage in our first three years include laid a firm basis for the contemporary advances we ought to the least bit times and ought to invent at some stage in the following years.
These efforts, which you all were instrumental in, invent the core of our annual plans of hump and mobilisation. They are designed to be determined that that the other folks of Southern Africa actively contribute to shaping and advancing the upright to particular, access data, and interact with a media that is fit for motive in the face of everchanging contexts.
Suffice it to hiss that our jam has never in its complete history been at such substandard-roads attending to excessive-density saturation of elections, battling and entertaining with snappily-paced adjustments in technology, grappling with the debilitating effects of warfare at a worldwide scale, living with the effects of the changing native weather; navigating the fragmentation of revolutionary forces in the age of increasing upright-flit politics and an expression and media ecosystem that faces an existential threat attributable to these vices.
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On behalf of the organisers of this year’s Summit broadly and the Spaces of Solidarity, its members and lend a hand accomplice, I relate gratitude for the create of the programme, that will presumably additionally honest investigate cross-check us taking a deep and detailed dive into structuring mechanisms that acknowledge to the confluence of these advanced factors.
United in our vary, we include now the means to assemble these needs. With unwavering effort and energy, we are able to and ought to invent an agile hump with velocity!
Let us be bask in an navy standing at parade in cohesion with the trigger of the jam’s other folks to deem, re-imagine and assemble a more in-depth society predicated on peace, accountability, competitive media, and responsiveness to the electorate.
Thank You
Dr Tabani Moyo
MISA Regional Director
