Second Report on the Implementation of South Africa's APRM Programme of Action

South Africa hereby submits the Second Annual Report on the Implementation of the APRM National Programme of Action (NPoA). This Report details progress made during the period January 2009 to November 2010. The country acceded to the African Peer Review Mechanism in March 2003, thus voluntarily consenting to a review by peers on the African Continent in the areas of Democracy and Political Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance as well as Socio-Economic Development. This review commenced with a self-assessment process in 2005 which culminated into a Self-Assessment Report submitted to the APR Forum in 2006. Subsequently, the country was peer reviewed and the Country Review Report (CRR) was issued in July 2007, which included the NPoA for its implementation. As part of compliance, the country is expected to report annually on the implementation of the NPoA. In this report South Africa accounts in terms of the four thematic areas and cross-cutting issues identified in the Country Review Report and National Programme of action.