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Department of Foreign Affairs Annual Report 2007/2008 Annual Report 2007 - 08 the dfa Efqbsunfou; Gpsfjho!Bggbjst SFQVCMJD!PG!TPVUI!BGSJDB Table of Content Part 1: General Information 2-12 Submission of the Annual Report to the Executive Authority 2 1.1 Executive Summary by the Director-General 4-6 1.2 Information on the Ministry: Report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs 7-9 1.3 The Mission Statement 10 1.4 Legislative Mandate 10-12 Part 2: Human Capital Management 13-33 1. Service Delivery 16 2. Expenditure 16 3 Employment and Vacancies 17 4. Job Evaluation 18 5. Employment changes 19 6. Employment Equity 21 7. Performance Rewards 24 8. Foreign Workers 25 9. Leave Utilisation for the period 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006 26 10. HIV AND AIDS and Health Promotion programmes 27 11. Labour Relations 28 12. Skills Development 30 13. Injury on duty 31 14. Utilisation of Consultants 32 Part 3: Programme Performance 34-125 Programme 1: Administration 35-38 Programme 2: Foreign Relations 39-58 CONSOLIDATION OF THE AFRICAN AGENDA 39 SOUTH-SOUTH CO-OPERATION 41 NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE 42 PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE 42 BILATERAL RELATIONS 46 Programme 3: Protocol and Public Diplomacy 59-67 State Protocol 59 Public Diplomacy 66 Performance Information 68-124 Programme 4: International Transfers 125 Part 4: Report of the Audit Committee 126-128 Part 5: The Annual Financial Statements (Separate table of contents) Abbreviations of Government Department and Acronyms Vote 3 : Annual Report 2007 - 08 Department of Foreign Affairs Part 1: General Information Submission of the Annual Report to the Executive Authority To the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma; I have the honour of presenting the 2007-08 Annual Report of the Department of Foreign Affairs. ___________________________________ Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba Director-General: Department of Foreign Affairs 2 Vote 3 : Annual Report 2007 - 08 Department of Foreign Affairs Vote 3 : Annual Report 2007 - 08 3 Department of Foreign Affairs 1.1 Executive Summary by the Director-General South Africa continued to play a key role in The design of the new Parliament was adjudicated after a international affairs during the course of 2007-08. continent-wide design competition, and construction of the Within the context of the priorities of the International chambers is expected to commence in the next financial year. Relations, Peace and Security Cluster (IRPS) the As a host country to the Pan-African Parliament, South Africa Department of Foreign Affairs continued to play continued to provide the required technical and logistical support its part as a component of the overall efforts of to the Parliament during its Bureau meetings as well as its government‘s reconstruction and development of Sessions held in May and October 2007. our country and the entire African continent as well as contributing towards a more people-centred and Furthermore, South Africa worked closely with the other African rules based global system. countries to ensure that Africa’s special developmental challenges as espoused by NEPAD, remained high on the African Agenda, In furthering South Africa’s foreign policy objectives, the especially during the engagements with the countries and Department continued to focus on the following key priorities: organisations of the North. • Consolidation of the African Agenda; • Strengthening of South South Co-operation; At the regional level, South Africa participated in the Regional • Strengthening of North South Co-operation; Integration Task Team with a view of ensuring that trade • Participation in the Global System of Governance; liberalisation and infrastructure development could be realised. It • Strengthening of Political and Economic Relations; and is within this context that South Africa ‘s participation in the August • Organisational Strengthening. 2007 SADC summit in Lusaka was geared towards accelerating regional infrastructure development to support deeper regional In addressing these priorities, the Department‘s foreign policy integration and development, including agreeing on a basis activities and interventions were guided by the Department‘s for SADC to declare its Free Trade Area (FTA) . In this regard Strategic Plan 2007-2010. South Africa will continue to work with other member countries to realise the success of the SADC Free Trade Area as the first With regards to the African Agenda, the Department remained milestone in the regional economic integration agenda. focused on participating in the African Union processes aimed at the operationalisation and strengthening of the African During the reporting year, the process of engaging the African Union (AU) and its structures. More work was dedicated to our Diaspora continued to take centre stage with the view to enhance strategic engagements in the AU fora and in SADC as one of the Africa’s capacity to network with, attract and utilise all possible Regional Economic Communities (REC’s) which are deemed to Diaspora resources for the development of both Africa and be the building blocks of the continental integration process. Africans in the Diaspora. In this regard the working papers for 4 Vote 3 : Annual Report 2007 - 08 Department of Foreign Affairs Director-General of Foreign Affairs Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba the overall theme and sub themes which served as a basis for the In pursuance of the notion that the Multilateral system of governance regional consultative meetings were developed and South Africa remains the only hope for addressing current global challenges, looks forward to hosting a Diaspora Summit in October 2008. South Africa continued to serve as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and played an important role As part of the preparatory process for this summit South Africa in working with other members of the Council in seeking negotiated in partnership with the AU hosted a number of regional meetings and over-arching solutions to international conflicts. South Africa culminating in the Ministerial we had the hounour to host in consulted extensively with affected states and other African actors November 2007. with a view to bringing an African input into the resolution of conflicts on the continent and elsewhere in the world. During its first year Over the years as part of diversifying our economic relations, we on the United Nations Security Council, South Africa prioritised have expanded our relations with the countries of the South. This African issues and will continue with these and other issues of the work has continued during the period under review with specific developing world in the Council. We also continued to play an active focus on Latin America and Asia. role in the Human Rights Council. We started laying the foundation for the celebration of 10 years During the reporting year, the Department has worked hard to of our diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China; bring further improvements in both the Human Resources and we also had the hounour of hosting the 2nd IBSA Summit and infrastructure capacity, with a view to strengthen organisational look forward also to participating in the 3rd Summit to be hosted capacity to deliver on our mandate. For this reason, the Department in India in October 2008 decided to separate the Human Resources Unit from the FSI and created two Branches, namely the Branch: Human Resources Overall both politically and economically we continue to see and the Branch: Diplomatic Training, Research and Development consolidation and growth in our relations with the countries of (DTRD). The Branch: DTRD continued with the cadet programme to the South thereby securing better prospects for our country in attract talented young graduates to the Department. The programme the context of the ongoing changes in the global economic and targeted graduates for further training in the Department with political landscapes. the intent of permanently absorbing those who have succesfully completed their training and indeed it was a success. With respect to countries of the North we saw the establishment of a strategic partnership with our main trading partner , the In addressing the infrastructure capacity challenges work EU; the increased attention we paid to the countries of Eastern continued in building the New Head Office for the Department Europe and to the further strengthening of relations with the that will house all officials into one building. Furthermore, the Russian Federation. refurbishment of our Missions and Chanceries abroad to better Vote 3 : Annual Report 2007 - 08 5 Department of Foreign Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma with former President Nelson Mandela project our contry and people also continued to receive priority. discharge of their oversight function and for continuing to be a source of inspiration to both myself and the Management of the We continued to improve communication and information Department. technology to ensure that the Department stays abreast of innovation and exploits technological advances to improve both Sincere gratitude goes to the Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini efficiency and effectiveness in our operations. Zuma, Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad and Deputy Minister Sue van der Merwe for their continuous tireless engagement in shaping During the reporting year, the country’s representation abroad and articulating the views and positions of Africa and the entire increased and South Africa now has diplomatic relations with developing world and ensuring that South Africa continues to more than 180 countries. It
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