South Africa: Pretoria rebuffs DA call to move SADC summit from Zimbabwe

South Africa’s government has dismissed calls by the Democratic Alliance (DA) for this week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit to be moved from Zimbabwe because the Harare government abused its political opponents. 

South Africa had no authority to overrule SADC’s decision to host the summit in Harare, therefore President Cyril Ramaphosa, accompanied by International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola, would be attending the summit on 17 August,…