The SADC Secretariat has distanced itself from media reports that SADC election observers will visit the Kingdom of Eswatini on the 14th of this month. 

The reports were made through the Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries, a non-governmental organisation that supports the electoral monitoring process.

However, it is not a structure of SADC and has no mandate to deploy the regional body's Election Observation Mission.

The need to reform the electoral system were some of the discussions at the SADC Electoral Advisory Council team currently underway in Windhoek.

The post-election advisory council held a closed-door meeting with the SADC Ambassadors and High Commissioners in Namibia.

The delegates are in the country for an eight-day mission to conduct a post-election review of the Presidential and National Assembly elections that took place in November 2019.