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Nutrition Security Strategy 2015-2025 was adopted; and the Declaration on Eliminating
Malaria was approved in 2016. The SADC Disaster Risk Reduction Management Frame-
work and Fund was approved in 2018, as well as the Youth Empowerment Framework.
Kiswahili was adopted as the Fourth SADC Official Working Language in 2019.
Significant milestones achieved by Dr. Tax and her team in recognition of the re-
gional heritage and the Founders of SADC include the launch in 2014 of a nine-volume
set of books produced under the SADC Hashim Mbita Project; the first Southern Africa
Liberation Day was commemorated in 2019, and a video component of the first resource
materials on liberation heritage was shown to Council of Ministers the same year. SADC
embarked on a review of the history curriculum in the region in 2019 at the request of
Ministers of Education.
Dr. Tax attended the first meeting of Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
with the African Union Commission in 2019 to report on the status of regional integration.
Prior to joining the SADC Secretariat in January 2014, she was Permanent Secretary in
the Ministry of East African Cooperation in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Dr. Tax is assisted by two deputies, Dr. Thembinkosi Mhlongo of South Africa and
Ambassador Joseph André Nourrice of Seychelles. Dr. Mhlongo is the Deputy Executive
Secretary for Regional Integration, appointed in October 2013. He served previously at
the Secretariat as the SADC Chief Director from 2001-2005. Ambassador Nourrice is the
Deputy Executive Secretary for Corporate Affairs, appointed in October 2018. He suc-
ceeded Emilie Ayaza Mushobekwa who served as Deputy Executive Secretary for Cor-
porate Affairs from 2010 to 2018.
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Lengolo Bureng Monyake Albert Mudenda Muchanga Eng. Joao Samuel Caholo
Deputy Executive Secretary Deputy Executive Secretary Deputy Executive Secretary for
1994­1998 2001­2005 Regional Integration
2005­2013

Emilie Ayaza Mushobekwa Dr Thembinkosi Mhlongo Ambassador Joseph Nourrice
Deputy Executive Secretary for Deputy Executive Secretary for Deputy Executive Secretary for
Corporate Affairs Regional Integration Corporate Affairs
2010­2018 2013 ­ 2021 2018­2022