1.   To a large extent, initiative in policy formation is centered in the chief executive.

2.   They will retain a significant role through the party machinery in policy formation.

3.   If PR is not involved in policy formation, then top management is implicitly assuming the PR mantle.

4.   No matter of governance is more crucial to democratic principles and to the credibility of political outcomes and policy formation than a sound electoral system.

5.   SADC executive secretary Kaire Mbuende said Mandela would be expected to take the initiative and play a leading role in collective policy formation in the community.