14 Aug 2013

Three Members of Parliament (MPs) are in South Africa attending the Pan Africa Parliament (PAP) Statutory Committee meetings. The meetings began on August 12 and will end on Friday (Aug 16).

A press release from the National Assembly stated that the delegation, which consisted of Shoshong MP, Mr Dikgang Makgalemele, Kgatleng East MP, Mr Isaac Mabiletsa and Palapye MP, Mr Moiseraela Goya, is expected back on Saturday.

Pan Africa Parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided for in the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community signed in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991.

Its establishment was informed by a vision to provide a common platform for African peoples and their grass-roots organisations to be more involved in discussions and decision-making on the problems and challenges facing the continent.

The aim of the PAP, which represented all the people of Africa, was to evolve into an institution with full legislative powers, whose members were elected by universal adult suffrage. Ends