Southern African Research and Documentation Centre

11/12/2025

Southern African Research and Documentation Centre Executive Director, Munetsi Madakufamba paid a courtesy call on the new Ghanaian Ambassador to Zimbabwe H.E Bonaventure Adjavor to explore collaboration opportunities.

05/12/2025

Strengthening Partnerships: Teams from Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) and Xiangtan University, based in China's Hunan Province, met on 5 December to explore collaboration opportunities.

The two institutions identified strategic areas for cooperation aimed at strengthening

05/12/2025

Southern African Research and Documentation Centre was privileged to participate at a Hybrid Interactive Seminar aimed at exploring trade and investment opportunities between India and Zimbabwe hosted by India in Zimbabwe (Embassy of India, Harare) in collaboration with FIEO.

Ministry of Industry and Commerce Zimbabwe Deputy Minister, Raj Modi officiated at the event

Trade between the two countries is steadily growing & amounted to US$260 million in 2024.

Investments by Indian businesses in Zim are estimated at over US$600 million in the last few years, creating over 15k jobs.

01/12/2025

Enhancing China-Zimbabwe bilateral relations

The year 2025 marks a defining moment in the enduring relationship between China and Zimbabwe, as the two nations celebrated 45 years of diplomatic ties and elevated their partnership to new strategic heights.

The visit of His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to China in September 2024 and September 2025 reaffirmed this deepening bond, culminating in a series of high-level engagements that strengthened the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation and underscored the shared commitment to build an all-weather community with a shared future.

Against this backdrop, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Zimbabwe and the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) co-hosted the China–Zimbabwe Dialogue: Aligning China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) with Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 on 20 November 2025.

The Dialogue was part of the broader implementation framework emerging from President Mnangagwa’s visit and the outcomes of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It sought to identify actionable synergies between Zimbabwe’s forthcoming National Development Strategy 2 (NDS2) and China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, both of which emphasise sustainable, innovation-led, and people-centred development.

To access full Report:

China Zimbabwe Dialogue Report The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Zimbabwe, in conjunction with the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) held a half-day seminar on 20 November 2025 with the objective of bringing together stakeholders to discuss and explore...

01/12/2025

SARDC Executive Director, Munetsi Madakufamba chats with on how China's development path inspires attainment of Zimbabwe's Vision 2030:

China's development path inspires Zimbabwe's attainment of Vision 2030, which aims to achieve upper-middle-income economy status by 2030, a Zimbabwean expert has said.

06/11/2025

The Southern African Research and Documentation Centre & Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) met on 6 November to explore areas of cooperation and strengthen already existing ties.

The two institutions have a strong history of working together towards integrated water resources management in the SADC region.

29/10/2025

Voting is underway in Tanzania where voters will elect a president, parliament and councillors to serve for the next five years.

A total of 17 candidates, including the incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Chama Cha Mapinduzi, are contesting in the presidential poll.

28/10/2025

"Sanctions on Zimbabwe have evolved in form and target over the years, yet their effect has frequently destabilised Zimbabwe, and the SADC region at large.

SADC believes that the prosperity and livelihood of any civilisation can and should not be held at ransom by any such external forces, as has been the case with the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, " - SADC Executive Secretary speaking on the SADC anti-sanctions day commemorations on 25 October

16/10/2025

14 October is marked as Nyerere Day in Tanzania and is a public holiday in remembrance of the life of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere who passed away on this day in 1999.

Southern Africa celebrates Mwalimu Nyerere’s leadership and devotion to liberation and socio-economic development. The day encourages the region to carry forward his vision of peace, freedom, social cohesion, solidarity and development.

Mwalimu taught his firm principles of development, self-reliance and unity of the African continent. Mwalimu means “Teacher” in Kiswahili.

Nyerere had strong commitment that independent Tanganyika would fully support the liberation of African countries from colonialism and apartheid, and he did that. He believed that, without the freedom of the continent, his own country would not be free.

The founding president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere was one of the leaders of the nine countries that formed the SADCC on 1 April 1980 in Lusaka, Zambia. The core objective was political independence and economic development.

The leaders of Tanzania and Zambia, Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda facilitated the development of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) supported by China. The freedom railway facilitated trade between the two countries, and eventually, between Eastern and Southern Africa as a whole.

Mwalimu Nyerere described the TAZARA as a “weapon of freedom”.

SARDC’s information is based on the values of SARDC’s founding patron, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, that is, honesty, integrity, commitment, dedication, equality, hard work and unity.

14/10/2025

🚨 SADC to deploy the SADC Panel of Elders to Madagascar "on a fact-finding mission and to facilitate a conducive environment for dialogue to take root"

-this follows reports of an attempted coup & demonstrations in the country that have resulted in the death of protesters

14/10/2025

October 14 is a special day for the United Republic of Tanzania, set to commemorate the life and legacy of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. He was Baba wa taifa, father of the nation, the moving force for the independence of Tanganyika on 9 December 1961 and for its unity with Zanzibar on 26 April 1964 to create the United Republic of Tanzania

Southern Africa celebrates Mwalimu Nyerere’s leadership and devotion to liberation and socio-economic development. The day encourages the region to carry forward his vision of peace, freedom, social cohesion, solidarity and development.

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was the father of southern African liberation, and one of the founders of the Southern African Development Community.

Born in Butiama near Lake Victoria on 13 April 1922, when he passed away on 14 October 1999, Africans everywhere shared the sense of loss felt by Tanzanians.

Mwalimu Nyerere is remembered for his dedicated support for the liberation of Africa from colonial rule and apartheid. “He carried the torch that liberated Africa”.

Nyerere pursued the ideals of liberation, democracy and common humanity into the rest of the continent and, with the leaders of the other 31 African countries that were independent in 1963, established the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which later became the African Union.

08/10/2025

🚨The Southern African Research and Documentation Centre is participating at the 13th Pan-African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The conference is running under the theme "Honouring a Legacy, Building a Future."

marks a decade since the launch of the African Union's High-Level Panel (HLP) Report on IFFs from Africa, offering an opportunity to take stock of progress, reignite momentum and confront the enduring structural challenges that enable resource drain from the continent.

At the time the HLP Report was launched, it was estimated that the continent was losing up to US$50 billion annually through IFFs, resources that could be used to fund Africa's structural transformation.

Former South African President, chairs the HLP.