o Corporate governance continues to transform the manner in which government, business and other entities are managed on behalf of defined stakeholders, o Socio-economic development has thus far advanced to an extent that consensus is developing on contentious issues such as the definition of poverty, integrated and holistic approach to managing HIV and AIDS, and children’s health and nutrition. We commit ourselves to further leading processes of accountability to the programme of the African Peer Review Mechanism and to ready ourselves for the next review. Notwithstanding that, there are still outstanding matters in the implementation of the NPoA, thus the country shall submit the third report responding to all outstanding matters by the year 2013 and will assess at that time if it is ready for the 2nd peer review. FOCAL POINT: MR M.R. BALOYI, MP MINISTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION November 2010 6