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Forecasting at Pangia Risk and did abuse Diane Hawker Kalubi. Welcome, ladies, to the show. It's been a while. Good to talk to you again. So, you have followed the summits closely from the beginning right up until when it ended. Did it at any point feel like there was an elephant in the room that needed to be cleared? Yes, for sure, Adua, I would say that the migration issue did.

End up becoming an elephant in the room. Although it wasn't initially on the agenda, this SADC conference, the 46th conference, was meant to be focused primarily on issues of industrialization within the region. I mean, the conference itself has quite a long, convoluted theme, which speaks to the issue of industrialization within the region, agriculture and critical minerals.

But we saw on Friday when President Seoul Ramaphosa gave a speech at UKZN, University of KwaZulu-Natal, it was a lecture that was a public lecture that was being given there. He actually apologized to the neighboring countries for the manner in which this migration issue had unfolded, saying that we cannot submit to the intimidation and harassment of people seen as coming from

Elsewhere. As South Africans, we are deeply concerned and ashamed that nationals from other countries have, in recent months, been subjected to discrimination and ill-treatment. I repeat: as South Africans, we are deeply concerned and ashamed that people from

other nations, some whose leaders are here, were treated badly and were even forced to leave the country under threat of violence. As a South African, he felt personally that he needed to apologize as well as apologizing on behalf of other South Africans. At the leaders' summit, there was a protest that was held through the streets of Durban where the conference was.