The White Paper on South Africa's Foreign Policy (May 2011) has been crafted to champion Pan Africanism and South-South partnerships. There is a deliberate policy shift and strategic focus on partnering with the emerging markets (trade and investment), and advocate the African Agenda within the South-South forum. The rise of China, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and others, has created space for addressing domestic imperatives, which are actually common amongst these emerging economies. 10. Comments by members of the Committee