The annual SAPSN PEOPLES SUMMIT held in parallel to the SADC governmental summit is due to take place, on 15-16 August, in Windhoek, Namibia, this year. This is the sixth such regional gathering of a wide range of social and labour organisations, developmental and environmental, gender and human rights and many community-based organisations from the entire SADC region. It comes at a particularly crucial period in the lives and endeavours – and the mobilisation - of the peoples of the region because this 2010 summit is taking place in the context of  major existing, and new, challenges facing all the peoples and governments of this part of Africa, the rest of the continent, and the world.