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International Relations
DIRCO Budget: Committee Report
11 May 2022
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Budget Vote report for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. Members disagreed on whether the recommendations section of the report should refer to the matter between the Department and Cuba [this was in reference to government's intention to ...
International Relations
DIRCO & ARF 2022/23 Annual Performance Plan; with Deputy Ministers
4 May 2022
African Renaissance International Fund
In a virtual meeting, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the African Renaissance and International Co-Operation Fund (ARF) presented their Strategic Plans, budget and 2022/23 Annual Performance Plans to the Portfolio Committee.
DIRCO reported ...
International Relations
DIRCO audit action plan; SADPA; Pan African Parliament; consequence management: with Minister
16 Mar 2022
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) to receive briefings on: audit action plan and how it was being implemented; investigations on continuing expired contracts; the processes around BT Communications contract; the migration from the African Renaissance Fund to SADPA; separating the Property Management ...
International Relations
Committee Report on DIRCO & ARF Quarterly Performance
9 Mar 2022
International Relations
Tunisia Constitutional Referendum & Russia-Ukraine situation: DIRCO briefing
2 Mar 2022
The Committee received a presentation in a virtual meeting from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on the Tunisia Constitutional Referendum and Russia-Ukraine developments.
Members immediately expressed concern about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and were eager to discuss the matter. One Member said it “was a crisis which threatened ...
International Relations
Current political dynamics in Libya: Briefing; with Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
23 Feb 2022
The Committee was convened in a virtual meeting to receive a briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation on the current political dynamics in Libya in the context of the postponement of the elections which had been scheduled for 24 December 2021.
The Deputy Minister of International ...
International Relations
South Africa’s Economic Diplomacy: Briefing by the Institute for Global Dialogue
16 Feb 2022
The Institute for Global Dialogue presented some of the work it had been doing on South African foreign policy in the context of foreign economic relations and the objectives that align with the way South Africa considered its international relations.
At the end of the 1990s with the end of ...
International Relations
DIRCO & ARF 2021/22 Quarter 3 performance, with Deputy Minister
9 Feb 2022
The virtual meeting was delayed by 30 minutes to allow the Portfolio Committee to have a private analysis and discussion of the Quarter 3 Reports due to their late delivery. Thereafter, Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and the African Renaissance and International Co-Operation Fund (ARF) presented.
During ...
International Relations
DIRCO & ARF 2021/22 Quarter 1 & 2 performance, with Deputy Minister
2 Feb 2022
In a virtual meeting the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) provided feedback on the progress in its programmes for Quarters 1 and 2. The COVID-19 pandemic still affects diplomatic operations across the world. Most countries introduced travel restrictions and resorted to digital means to conduct their business ...
International Relations
Peace and Security in SADC region; Structural Bilateral Mechanism with DRC
8 Dec 2021
The Portfolio Committee convened in a virtual meeting to receive a briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on the structural bilateral mechanism with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and to deliberate on whether the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was living up to its mandate, ...