2. INTRODUCTION South Africa hereby submits its Second Report on the Implementation of the National Programme of Action (NPoA). This report reflects progress made since the First Report and gives an account on the thematic areas as well as the cross cutting issues that are raised therein. This Report is divided into five sections. Section A contains the Executive Summary and Section B deals with the overall assessment in the implementation of the NPoA. Responses to the following cross-cutting issues are addressed in Section C: Land Reform, Violence against Women and Children, Crime, Xenophobia, Racism, Managing Diversity, Affirmative Action (AA) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Section D provides the FIFA 2010 World Cup Report. Section E is an abridged version of the main report and is presented in the form of a matrix which provides progress achieved and outstanding issues against the four thematic areas and cross cutting issues. 20