Deputy Minister Thandi Moraka is at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia Co-Chairing the 2nd ASEAN-South Africa Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee Meeting".

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members are Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines), is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia. Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people with the gross domestic product (GDP) estimated at USD 3.6 trillion.