{"id":199272,"date":"2025-06-01T13:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-sadc-agrees-in-principle-for-development-fund-namibia-signs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:01:49","slug":"southern-africa-sadc-agrees-in-principle-for-development-fund-namibia-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-sadc-agrees-in-principle-for-development-fund-namibia-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: SADC Agrees in Principle for Development Fund &#8211; &#8211; Namibia Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Agreement to Operationalise the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Development Fund (RDF) has been approved by Cabinet as of 22 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This was announced by the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Hon Emma Theofelus after the decision was taken at the seventh Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At least nine SADC Member States &#8211; Angola, the DRC, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe &#8211; have signed the agreement to operationalise the SADC&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agreement to Operationalise the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Development Fund (RDF) has been approved by Cabinet as of 22 May 2025. This was announced by the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Hon Emma Theofelus after the decision was taken at the seventh Cabinet meeting. At least nine SADC Member States &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12221,5989,5111,4706,724,257,9659,1412,6428,254,7153],"class_list":["post-199272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agrees","tag-development","tag-fund","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-principle","tag-sadc","tag-signs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}