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D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N C ETable A.1: Map indicating Representation by SANDF Attachés.CommitteeDateVenuePersonnel Work GroupOps Sub sub-committee and Chiefs of DefenceEvaluation workshop of the Strategic Indicative Plan of the OrganLogistical Technical CommitteeTelecommunication Workgroup31 st Interstate Defence and Security Committee meetingMeeting of the Ministerial Committee of the OrganSADC Military HIV/AIDS 1 st Technical Committee meetingSADC Military Malaria managers meeting1 st SADC Non-communicable Diseases Technical Committee meeting4 th annual SADC Standing Maritime Committee Work SessionSADC Standing Maritime CommitteeLogistics Workgroup13-15 April11-15 May22-26 May21-23 June27 Apr - 1 May22-23 July02-07 August01-07 August26-30 September21-24 September7-11 September20-26 February16-20 MarchCape TownMaputoBotswanaBotswanaTanzaniaMozambiqueMozambiqueZimbabweMadagascarNamibiaTanzaniaNamibiaTanzaniaAfrican Union. During December 2010, the Minister ofDefence and a representative of C SANDF attended the6 th Meeting of the African Chiefs of Defence Staff andHeads of Security in Addis Ababa. Concurrently the 4 thOrdinary Meeting of the Specialised TechnicalCommittee on Defence, Safety and Security met andwas attended by the SANDF representative.Intergovernmental Meetings. Defence representativesattended intergovernmental bilateral meetings, namely;the Mozambique/RSA Joint Bilateral Commission forCooperation. The bilateral Joint Permanent Commissionson Defence and Security with respectivelyNamibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana met during the year.Participation in these meetings enables Defence supportto South African foreign policy.Bilateral Defence Committee Meetings. During thereporting year the Germany/RSA Defence Committee,the PRC/RSA Defence Committee, the RSA/USADefence Committee and the RSA/UK DefenceCommittee met to discuss co-operation between theSANDF and respective countries.Service Level Bilateral Meetings. On Service andDivisional level, Naval Staff talks were held betweenthe SA Navy and their counterparts from the USA, Indiaand Malawi. The latter was in support of Government'sAfrican Agenda and the ICTS cluster objectives. TheSAAF held staff talks with the Air Forces of Germanyand the USA respectively.F o r e i g n V i s i t sForeign visits to African Countries. About 54 visitswere undertaken by members from the SANDF toAfrican countries for reasons varying from high-levelgoodwill visits, planning, debriefing conferences andmeetings on combined exercises, quarterly non-residentialaccreditation to Lesotho, and visits to SA troopsdeployed in Africa and intelligence exchanges. The SAArmy is involved in training in the 'Train the Trainer'concept in Namibia as part of bilateral co-operationbetween the two countries. The presentation by theSAAF of the Senior Air Power Programme in Rwandademonstrates the SANDF commitment to co-operationin Africa. Fifty members from five African countriesattended the 4 th SA Army Rifle Shooting Evaluation.Visits to the DOD by African Countries. The SANDFhosted six delegations from Africa. The reasons forthese visits varied from benchmarking and comparativestudies on training, human resource management tomedical matters, intelligence exchanges, sport andgoodwill visits.Foreign Visits to Countries from the Rest of theWorld. About 98 visits took place during theFY2010/11. The purpose of these visits included;observers to military exercises, benchmarking of training,attendance of conferences as members of professionalbodies, programmes on strategic issues or workgroups and defence exhibitions.128ANNUAL REPORT FY 2010/2011
D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N C EVisits to the DOD by Countries from the Rest of theWorld. The 25 visits to the SANDF ranged from reciprocalgoodwill visits, discussions on specific functionaltopics, study visits by military training institutions andthe hosting of workgroups.Foreign Military Training. About 18 foreign officersattended the flagship development courses of theSANDF, namely the Executive National SecurityProgramme and the Joint Senior Command and StaffProgramme. The SANDF hosted foreign members on55 functional courses. SANDF officers attended developmentcourses in 11 foreign countries. A further 111members of the SANDF attended functional courses inforeign countries. Seven foreign delegations comprisingofficers on Senior Command and Staff courseschose South Africa as destination for their foreign studyvisits.Ship Visits. During the reporting year, various shipsfrom the Navies of France, the UK, Korea and Pakistancame alongside at South African ports. During EXINTEROP EAST, the Navy sailed to Maputo with theSAS DRAKENSBERG, SPIOENKOP andGALESHEWE and during Operation COPPER; theSAS MENDI sailed to Mozambican ports of Maputoand Pemba.The African Standby Force and the SouthernAfrican Standby Force. The Roadmap II for the operationalisationof the African Standby Force (2006-2010)envisaged a validation exercise that will test early warningand crises management, as well as the structures thatunderpin the African Standby Force concept. Againstthis background, the AU Peace Support OperationsDepartment hosted EX AMANI, a command post exercise,during October 2010 in Addis Ababa. As part ofRoadmap III (2011-2015), the operationalisation of theAfrican Standby Force will continue with a continentalexercise during the FY2011/12, which is currently beingplanned. Also during the FY2011/12, the SADC willhost EX BLUE CRANE, which is an exercise undertakenin support of humanitarian assistance.S p e c i f i c D e f e n c e D i p l o m a c yA c t i o n sThe biennual African Aerospace and DefenceExhibition (AAD) was co-hosted with the SA DefenceIndustry took place from 21 to 25 September 2010. TheSANDF was responsible for co-ordinating the ForeignVisitors Programme. About 17 Ministers of Defence orrepresentatives attended the Expo including; six Chiefsof Defence Force; seven Chiefs of Army; 21 Chiefs ofAir Force, seven Chiefs of Navy and two SurgeonsGeneral and / or their representatives were hosted duringAAD.Military Operations. Operational co-operation formsa mainstay of military bilateral and multilateral cooperationbetween countries, in general and enhances operationalinter-operability, whilst knowledge transfer takesplace. Although military operations do not always commenceas a defence diplomacy action, the advantages ofparticipation in multinational peace support operationslie in the enhancement of the RSA's commitment to providingcapacity to these operations and the image of theSouth African soldier abroad. Multinational peace supportoperations in which the SANDF participatedinclude Operations MISTRAL in the DRC, CORDITEin Sudan and VIMBEZELA in the Central AfricanRepublic. Through participation in these operations, theSANDF supported the work of the African Union andthe United Nations in striving for peace and security inthe African continent.Specialist Advisory Team to Kinshasa, DRC. TeamBULISA is currently developing plans for the implementationof the now completed Military Strategy forthe FARDC. A number of workshops and benchmarkingvisits were conducted, during the period under review,in the fields of financial management and humanresources management in the SANDF.Mission THEBE. The SA Army provided 120 instructorsto train three Battalions in the DRC. This was completedsuccessfully and the handing and taking overparade was held on 25 February 2011. This was attendedby the South African Ambassador to the DRC, whopresided as the chief dignitary at the parade. A small HQelement remains in the DRC to look after the RSAequipment that is still there.Joint, Interdepartmental and Multinational (JIM)Military Exercises. JIM military exercises reported indetail under the Force Employment Programme havemajor impact on defence diplomacy. The decisionstaken on multinational force preparation cooperationand interaction during bilateral and multilateral forumswere aligned with the requirements of the SANDF interms of the approved Joint Force Employment (JFE)objectives and missions. In May 2010, two members ofthe SANDF were in Australia to participate in ExerciseBELL BUOY, an exercise on naval co-ordination andguidance of shipping in the Pacific and Indian Oceansinvolving a number of Navies. Exercise IBSAMARtook place during September 2010, which was a maritimeinteraction and co-operation exercise with theNavies of India and Brazil. Exercise FAIRWAY BUOY,a naval co-operation and guidance of shipping exercisewith SADC counties also took place in Namibia from 2to 18 August 2010. EX ATLASUR, another annual maritimeexercise between the Navies of Argentina, Braziland Uruguay took place during October/November2010. The SANDF representatives also participated inANNUAL REPORT FY 2010/2011 129
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