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Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority Matsapha International Airport P. O. Box D361, The Gables H126 Tel: +268 2518 4390, 2518 4047, 258 4049 Fax: +268 2518 4199 Email: [email protected] Website: www.swacaa.co.sz SWACAA SWAZILAND CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY THE OFFICIAL SWACAA MAGAZINE VOL: 5 - January 2013 Our People Graduate ACCOUNTABILITY IS OUR WAY OF LIFE Hospice at Home and SWACAA - A life saving partnership ICAO MISSION - Focus on flight safety Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority THE OFFICIAL Swacaa MAGAZINE VOL. 5 - JANUARY 2013 ContentsCONTENTS OUR VISION AND OUR BUSINESS............................................................................4 EDITOR’S CORNER........................................................................................................5 FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL’S DESK...............................................................6 ICAO MISSION – FOCUS ON FLIGHT SAFETY ...............................................8 - 9 WE HAVE MOVED .......................................................................................................10 LIFE COMING FULL CIRCLE FOR THE FINANCE DIRECTOR................12 - 13 HOSPICE AT HOME AND SWACAA- A LIFE SAVING PARTNERSHIP............14 PICTURE GALLERY................................................................................................15 -18 INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DAY 2012.....................................................19 ACCOUNTABILITY IS OUR WAY OF LIFE.....................................................20 - 21 THE SWAZILAND INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR IS OUR SHOW................22 WORLD ROUTES 2012 - ABU DHABI......................................................................23 East3Route – OUR LIFE LINE ............................................................................24 OUR PEOPLE GRADUATE .................................................................................26 - 27 WHAT DO I DO AT SWACAA?...................................................................................28 TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS ..............................................................................................30 Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953 3 Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority Our Vision “To attract and retain world air traffic and related customers through our efficient, regulated, safe and reliable business offerings to the aviation industry”. Our Business 1. The Civil Aviation Authority Act 10, 2009. 2. Industry regulations in harmony with SADC. 3. A well run organisation responsive to clients and stakeholder needs. 4. People development to meet regulator and operator skills requirements. 5. Comprehensive guidance documents or inspector manuals. 6. Certification of the aviation industry. 7. Continuous safety and security oversight. 8. Resolution of safety and security concerns. 4 THE OFFICIAL Swacaa MAGAZINE VOL. 5 - JANUARY 2013 EDITOR’S CORNER he year 2012 must be allowed to rest in peace for eternity. It features among the most difficult in mankind’s memory and economically T is comparable with the years of The Great Depression leading to and around the Second World War. Governments went bankrupt to the point of inability to provide basic services for citizens, threatening a disintegration of the Social Contract which exists between governments and the rank and file. Desperate austerity measures were imposed by some European Governments that had some citizens burning themselves to death – not as a form of protest but because there seemed to be no practical way out for these individuals. Sabelo Dlamini - Editor For the first time in history (I think) a sitting US President, Barack Obama, had to cut short his Christmas going to be better than yesterday. This is no doubt going holiday in Hawaii with his wife and daughters to go back to be the best national news of the year. He was quick to to Washington DC. Not because the twin towers were caution, rightly so, that the country’s long-term financial burning. No. He needed to avert what the Americans call solutions lie not in SACU “shares” but in sustainable a “fiscal cliff”. We are talking about the United States of national economic development. Here is to hope that America here, the world’s most glorious economy. Hallo! the humbling experiences of 2012 will spur us all in our different ways - in our little corners to do the best we can But I have graced mother Earth long enough and I can and to say, “Never again”. claim some understanding of the ways of this world. To compensate for what cosmologists may dismiss as the The idea behind the SWACAA publication is to tell the human being’s insignificant lifespan in the universe, story of an industry that throughout the world is a key I took to reading from a tender age and I still do so in to economic development because of the wonders that it good measure. I have therefore lived for several millennia can do. We tell this story fully aware that ours is one of through books on many different subjects, be they history, humble beginnings. But we believe in what we do and are scripture, politics, science, the arts or the law. I know as a confident that we are part of a solution, perhaps long-term matter of fact that hardship has the tendency to produce in nature, but a solution to “sustainable national economic the best in man. It is during trying times that this species, development”, as the Minister said, to be appreciated even commonly known as the human being, is at its most by generations yet to come. resilient and has the miraculous ability to overcome. In this regard, we acknowledge the contribution to this Woza 2013! I like the positive energy and resolve that cause that big names in corporate Swaziland have made has traditionally characterised new years. It is like to our ability to be seen and heard in the form of this new beginnings. There is resolve for triumph over the publication in the four continents where we are presently things that have cowed us in the past to remind us how in circulation: Sincephetelo MVA Fund, Swaziland Post vulnerable we are. Quite often we emerge victorious. Such & Telecommunications Corporation, Old Mutual, is the human spirit. Our Minister for Finance Mr. Majozi Swaziland Airlink. What is it that they say about standing Sithole has happily disclosed that tomorrow is certainly on the shoulders of giants? 5 Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL’S DESK e are on the threshold of history in the Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Industry. The Ministry of Economic Planning and W Development has taken my principals – the Board of Directors - to Sikhuphe International Airport to begin the process of partially handing over the airport to SWACAA. Sikhuphe is happening in 2013 and it is no longer a case of wishful thinking. This is an emotional time for me personally and I am privileged to have known Solomon Dube - Director General the airport when it was a concept on a drawing board. It is opportune at such an approaching milestone in the 8. Army (USDF) deals with National Security and Civil / history of Swaziland’s aviation to reflect on our mandate Military coordination in Swaziland airspace; and interaction with other stakeholders. The guiding 9. Swaziland Tourism Authority and Swaziland Invest- document, the CAA Act No. 10 of 2009, states that the ment Promotion Authority: marketing Swaziland objective of the CAA is to: jointly as no one comes only to an airport. 1. Regulate the aviation industry; 2. Operate the country’s airports; All these entities periodically partake in international 3. Promote air transport. conferences, workshops and seminars in a drive to In carrying out this mandate SWACAA liaises with harmonise world aviation practises. This is necessary international and national stakeholders, as follows: because aviation is international by nature. An aircraft taking off from Matsapha Airport is in another’s country’s 1. Air Transport deals with market entry into the airspace within 10 minutes. Pilots must comply with each aviation industry; and every country’s air laws without fail. Equipment on 2. Inspectorate (Safety & Security) deals with Critical board aircraft must match ground equipment at each Elements, 6 (Certification of the industry); 7 state’s airports. (Continued surveillance) and 8 (Resolution of safety concerns – fines and corrections); It takes endless meetings to harmonise in all areas that are 3. Airports deals with technical and commercial necessary for safe flight. Such meetings are also used as management of airports and airstrips; information sharing and benchmarking platforms for all 4. Air Navigation Service deals with giving proper personnel in the different departments. SWACAA and in guidance to aircraft during takeoff, en-route and turn Swaziland can now boast of a pool of senior officials landing; who truly understand what civil aviation is all about. This 5. Ministry of Health liaises with SWACAA for control has been through international training, informative of pandemics through aviation; weekly meetings, external training and attendance at 6. Ministry of Home Affairs deals with the security international aviation meetings and conferences. All of travel documents and cross border movement of this has been made possible through the cooperation people; SWACAA Executives have received from the Board and 7. Royal Swaziland Police liaise with security personnel