Ms Nomonde Maimela, Executive Manager of ICCIPC and Ms. Shumi Pango, Acting Director of Advocacy and Policy Development at the DSTI .

Ms. Nomonde Maimela, Executive Manager of Innovation and Creativity at the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission, and Ms. Shumi Pango, Acting Director of Advocacy and Policy Development at the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation to discuss the impact of signing legally binding treaties, such as the recently signed agreements on Intellectual Property (IP), Genetic Resources (GR), Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources (TK), and the Design Law Treaty, on South Africa and Africa as a whole.