1. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Presentation of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement
(MTBPS)
3 November 2004

2. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
Actual Expenditure 2003/04
Key Priorities 2004/05
Allocation 2004/05
Budget Process 2005/06 to 2007/08
Key Priorities 2005/06
Baseline allocation 2005/06
Identified Savings
Policy Options 2004
Reallocation of Savings
New Funding Requests
Non-recurrent Expenditure 4th&5th YRS

5. SAVINGS 2003/04
Personnel Expenditure
Foreign Properties
Foreign exchange

6. Key Priorities 2004/05
African Renaissance
Politics and Security
Sustainable Development
Structured Bilaterals
International Conferences
Public Diplomacy
Departmental Support Services
State Protocol

7. Allocations 2004/05 (R’000)

9. ADJUSTMENT ESTIMATES 2004/05
R’000
Office of the Deputy Minister
Pan-African Parliament
Nepad Secretariat
New SADC Headquarters
Humanitarian Assistance to Gvt of Mali
TOTAL

10. DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET PROCESS
Policy
direction
by the
Minister
Developed
Four
Options
Departmental
Strategic
Workshop
Cabinet Lekgotla
Decisions
Reprioritization
within
Baseline

11. KEY PRIORITIES 2005/06
Global Governance
Political Issues
Socio-Economic Development
Security Issues
Consolidation of the African Agenda
South-South Co-operation
Political and Economic Relations
Human Resource Development

12. Key Priorities 2005/06 cont... Departmental Support Services
Foreign Service Institute
Information Communication Technology
Acquisition of properties abroad
Centralised Head Quarters

15. 2005 MTEF - POLICY OPTIONS R625.10m
African Agenda
R193.2million
Developed
Four
Options
Option 2:
International commitments
R113 million
Option 3:
Improving Service Delivery
R86.7 million
Option 4:
Capital Works
R232.2 million

17. PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT 2005/06
RENTAL R 21m
TRANSPORT - R7 m
ACCOMMODATION(President) - R 3 m
NIA (Accreditation) - R 2,4 m
SABC R 7,2 m
ICT R19,4 m
GCIS R 1,7m
TOTAL R61.7m

21. HEAD OFFICE BUILDING
DFA is currently occupying seven buildings
A process of acquiring Head Office Building through PPP was first registered in 2001
An approval was given and withdrawn due to Land issues
A PPP project has been registered again in 2003

24. NON- RECURRENT EXPENDITURE
PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT
INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT
2010 SOCCER WORLD CUP
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
ACQUSITION OF PROPERTIES ABROAD

25. Thank you