Deputy Minister Andries Nel is travelling to Namibia today to attend a meeting of SADC Ministers of Justice and Attorneys-General taking place in Walvis Bay, Namibia from 21-22 July 2011.
At its meeting held from 16-17 August 2010, the SADC Summit approved that a study should be conducted on the role, responsibilities and terms of reference of the SADC Tribunal including the nature of SADC law and its relationship with national law. Its object is to provide an analysis of the SADC legal system and of the role of the SADC Tribunal and the national courts of the SADC Members States.
In April 2011, a meeting of SADC Ministers of Justice/Attorneys-General met to finalise this report and presented it to Extra-Ordinary Summit held on Windhoek in May 2011.
The objective of the meeting in Walvis Bay is to formulate strategies on how to undertake the process of reviewing and amending the legal instruments and further develop a work plan to be presented to SADC Summit in August 2011.