MEDIA STATEMENT MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, DR EDNA MOLEWA, HIGHLIGHTS PROGRESS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF RHINOCEROS 25 JANUARY 2018 Fellow South Africans, Ladies and gentlemen of the media, Welcome to the first report back for 2018 on the Integrated Strategic Management approach to combat rhino poaching. I want to welcome my colleagues and thank them for taking the time to be here with us this morning, enabling us to address you as a collective. Next to me here is the Minister of State Security Mr. Bongani Bongo – and joining us via videolink from Cape Town is the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Ms. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. As you will know, rhino poaching is a national priority crime; and Department of Environmental Affairs continues to follow a multi-disciplinary approach together with our colleagues in the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Departments and agencies, namely, the Departments of Defence, Justice and Constitutional Development, Correctional Services, the Ministry of State Security, the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation or Hawks and the South African Police Service (SAPS). South African National Parks (SANParks), the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the Asset Forfeiture Unit and National Prosecuting Authority and all our provincial conservation authorities also continue to provide the necessary support required in this endeavour.

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