Calls intensify for SADC to quit CITES
pho Tebele in Gaborone and Sinikiwe Marodza in Harare A decision by the recent meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to reject a proposal by some Southern African member states to resume sales on ivory stockpiles has renewed calls for Southern African Development Community (SADC) to quit the organisation. Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and…