SACAA Annual Report 2022_23

The SACAA launched a smart card for aviation personnel, replacing the booklet that had been used to identify personnel. This makes South Africa one of the few countries in the world to use a smart card where licence holders and operators can access the data of aviation personnel in real time from anywhere in the world.

2021

2022

The Director of Civil Aviation, Ms Poppy Khoza, is the first woman in the world to be elected President of the ICAO General Assembly. This happened at the 41st Session held in Montreal, Canada.

South Africa retains its Category 1 status at the conclusion of a safety assessment by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States, which found that South Africa complies with the applicable ICAO standards for civil aviation safety oversight.

South Africa received permanent recognition from the Transportation Security Administration of the USA for a cargo security system that is compliant with ICAO standards.

The SACAA receives special mention from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) after reporting nine (9) successive clean audits in the last 10 years, to make it one of the country’s best performing state owned entities.

The Director of Civil Aviation is the first recipient of the Gloria Heath award bestowed upon her by the Flight Safety Foundation for championing the transformation of the aviation industry especially women empowerment.

2023

The President of the Republic of South ASfrica approves the South African Aviation Weather Services Oversight Function (Meteorological Authority) to be transferred to the SACAA.

South Africa achieves a score of 91,79% in the preliminary results of the ICAO USOAP-CMA audit, making RSA the first African country to surpass the 90% mark and places the country as number 1 in Africa.

South Africa, through the Department of Transport and the SACAA, is bestowed with a special award by the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) for the outstanding preliminary International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) audit results.

4 I Annual Report 2022/23