Issue 20 A better South Africa * A better Africa * A better world DIRCO flickr thedircoza Edition th 20 @theDIRCOza South Africa’s Public Diplomacy in action Africa’s South DIRCOza www.dirco.gov.za Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development www.dirco.gov.za | f Dircoza | @theDIRCOza | thedircoza | DIRCO flickr The African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia In the spirit of Ubuntu UBUNTU magazine – issue 20 cSouth Africa’s Publicr Diplomacye in action dits Publisher UBUNTU Clayson Monyela a Nguni word meaning humanity Editor-in-Chief The Department of International Relations Michelle Greeff – [email protected] and Cooperation’s quarterly magazine Tel: +27 12 351 1743 Editor Delien Burger - [email protected] Tel: +27 12 351 0948 Advertising Nthabiseng Makuwa - [email protected] Tel: +27 12 351 0388 Distribution Olwethu Koli – [email protected] Tel: +27 12 351 0006 Photographers Jacoline Schoonees, Yandisa Monakali, Katlholo Maifadi and Yolande Snyman, Department of International Relations and Cooperation; United Kingdom Department for International Development; Government Communication and Information System; SA Tourism; Xinhua/Chen Cheng; Jonathan Gill, Flickr; The Melrose Gallery (Cape Town); Owl Rescue Centre, Facebook; Luke Daniel / Red Bull Content Pool; Technothermsa.com; Ms Universe, Facebook; Miss Universe 2019, Twitter; Design Indaba; Delia Oosthuizen; Michael Tellinger; Craig Foster; Andreas Wittich; Southern African Wildlife College; Atlantic Campaigns, Facebook Ben Duffy; Juanita Mulder, Pixaby; Jean van der Meulen, Pixabay; Anthea Pokroy; Kagga Kamma Nature Reserve, Facebook; Hayward's Grand Safari Company; Baviaans Camino, Facebook; The Workshop Ko Kasi, Facebook; Oceana Beach and Wildlife Reserve, Facebook; and Sarah Koning. Acknowledgements ON THE COVER President Cyril Ramaphosa; Dr GNM Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation; Alvin Botes, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation; Ambassador Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director-General, The 33rd African Union (AU) Summit was held Branch: Asia and Middle East, Department of International Relations and Cooperation; Professor Cheryl Hendricks, Executive Director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council; Sisa Ntshona, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2020 CEO of SA Tourism; John Measey, Senior Researcher at the CIB based in the Department of Botany and under the theme: "Silencing the Guns: Creating Zoology, Stellenbosch University; Jen Snowball, Professor of Economics, Rhodes University; John J Stremlau, Conducive Conditions for Africa's Development". Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; David Coplan, Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand; James Okwe Chibueze, Associate Professor, North-West South Africa as Chair of the AU for the year 2020 University; Brent Lindeque, Editor in Chief, Good Things Guy; and Professor William Beinart, University of Oxford. will work tirelessly towards peace and security on the continent. In this regard, the country believes Advertisers that both the African leadership and ordinary World Food Programme, Standard Bank, Iziko Museum, Apartheid Museum, Cipla, MTN, Old Mutual, people must be the architects of their own peace BrandSA and Freedom Park. and stability. 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UBUNTU magazine – issue 20 cSouth Africa’s Publico Diplomacy in actionn tents In every issue 6 Letter from the Minister 8 Publisher’s note Diplomacy 12 Ubuntu Awards celebrate excellence in diplomacy 18 Deepening economic integration at the top of SA’s agenda 24 A better Africa and a better world 26 Building the Africa We Want: Strategies for South Africa’s Ubuntu Awards successful Chair of the African Union in 2020 celebrate 12 excellence in 30 South Africa and the Indian Ocean Rim Association diplomacy 32 South Africa is ready to respond to the Coronavirus 34 Remembering Mandela and his international links 38 Inaugural naval exercise held in South Africa 40 SA relations unchanged with UK amid BREXIT 42 Africa woos UK investors 46 SANDF to assist in supporting continental peace and security 48 South Africa-Ireland relations strengthened through mutual cooperation 50 The role of civil society in advancing human security Feature SANDF to assist 56 Liberation Heritage: Joseph Shabalala in supporting 58 How the fall of the Berlin Wall 31 years ago resonated 46 continental peace across Africa and security 60 BRICS scientists could help stem the tide of invasive species Meet the dogs Lifestyle being trained to 102 combat poaching 86 in South Africa San spirit shared 62 How international trade can unlock the potential of the cultural economy in developing countries 66 Esther Mahlangu: Disrupting Patterns 68 Tourism creates one in five jobs – SA can’t afford not to be competitive 70 8 incredible South African innovations of 2019 74 In a rare sighting, astronomers observe burst of activity as a massive star forms 76 Miss Universe comes home 78 The most beautiful object in South Africa 2020 The top-rated SA 80 The oldest places in South Africa experiences 86 Meet the dogs being trained to combat poaching in South Africa 106 90 The story of the pharma giant and the African yam 92 Flying the flag LIFESTYLE 100 New study reveals that Cape Town is Africa’s leading art capital 102 San spirit shared 104 Things to do at the longest promenade in sub-Saharan Africa 106 The top-rated SA experiences LETTER FROM THE MINISTER outh Africa assumed the make the most of our membership of this unstable, unsafe and in a precarious space or Chairship of the African Union strategic platform. being made to feel that way. (AU) at the 33rd Ordinary The first year of our membership was For many of our friends worldwide, South Session of the Assembly beset by tectonic shifts in global affairs. The Africa is viewed as a powerful progressive of Heads of State and challenges to multilateralism, while evident alternative able to articulate the concerns and Government of the AU in Addis for many years, became a dominant reality interest of the marginalised and vulnerable SAbaba, Ethiopia, on 8 and 9 February 2020. that altered global realities and relations while upholding the agreed progressive This is a significant responsibility for fundamentally. universal principles of the UN Charter. South Africa to assume, particularly given the South Africa has showed firm resolve in its All these imposing international challenges challenging times confronting the world of foreign policy, fairness, justice, equality and and responsibilities will exact a toll on South nations. Our Chairship implies great obligations respect for practices by focussing on its core Africa’s leadership capacity, and indeed to the Global South and means we must values of human dignity. These can only find capabilities, at a time when we face a myriad actively pursue the tasks related to concretely expression in globally fair trade and inclusive of country challenges. silencing the guns, enhancing inclusion and economic prosperity, even-handed global It is no exaggeration to say politically, equality and responding to climate change governance and the entrenchment of the economically and on the governance front, and the wide variety of risks and opportunities principle of multilateralism. South Africa is probably facing the sternest test confronting Africa. It is now clear that these principles enjoy since the dawn of the democratic dispensation Additionally, South Africa will concurrently inadequate global support right now, not in April 1994. chair the African Peer Review Mechanism because they are irrelevant but due to the fact We are fighting off the possibility of a credit (APRM) and the AU Committee of Heads of that the global community has increasingly felt rating downgrade but also, we have the duty to State on Climate Change. compelled to focus on self-preservation rather revive a sluggish economy even as we push As if this is not demanding enough scope than the good of all. back a high unemployment rate in the face of of work, 2020 is the final year of South Africa’s As a result of growing global social inequality continued private-sector job shedding. non-permanent membership of the United and the deteriorating living conditions of many A credit rating downgrade would compound