As the hon Sulliman has rightfully said, firstly, we need to eradicate, or do away with, all the impediments, including working on those overlaps he referred to.
Secondly, for us to have a sound SADC customs union, we need to make sure that other member states work on their industrialisation and manufacturing capability, so that we know what it is that would become the building blocks of this customs union. We need to facilitate and accelerate infrastructure build through our plans, so that we have free movement of goods and services. However, we must also make sure that goods are manufactured in our area. It shouldn't be, for example, that a member state becomes an expert in making sure that goods from other parts of the world are transported to a SADC member country, quickly repackaged and thrown into the market as a product of that particular country, just to take advantage of the arrangements of the SADC customs union.
So, those are the issues we are looking at. Is there a shared vision? Of course, yes. That's why we need to make sure of all the elements and the pillars that would make this SADC customs union work. We are focusing on the implementation of the free-trade agreement, or area, of SADC, but also the acceleration of the SADC-EAC-Comesa free trade agreement, which I referred to. This would include all sub-Saharan African member countries, save for the Maghreb. This will then indeed respond to the work and vision of our African Agenda, which is to make sure that, in the end, SADC becomes a good regional economic community that contributes positively to the African Agenda of integrating the economies of all on our continent.