International Relations · ANC
Ronald Lamola
ANCR232 680/mo equivalent · 2025/26 refLegacy grade B · evidence review
Ronald Lamola serves as International Relations minister (ANC). This tracker shows 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference of R2 792 155 per year — R232 680 per month equivalent, effective 1 April 2025. This role reference does not establish the exact package effective from 1 April 2026. A Presidency statement dated 20 January 2026 says a 3.8% National Executive increase takes effect from 1 April 2026; Gazette 53965 itself states 1 April 2025. M4 checked the current Remuneration Commission determination and recommendation libraries, which remain labelled 2025-26 and expose no 2026/27 Executive schedule. Odyssey therefore keeps the exact 2026-effective package unresolved, does not calculate it from 3.8%, and does not assume either official date is a typo. This profile retains a legacy Odyssey A-F scorecard for editorial context, but M3 does not re-certify that grade as a current performance rating. 0 of 3 KPI snapshots are directly reconciled to primary sources; the remaining KPI values and the legacy budget-spend field remain review-required.
Remuneration reference — 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference
Annual package reference
R2 792 155
Monthly equivalent
R232 680
Salary gradeGrade EC — Pay Level 1
Appointed3 July 2024
Statusactive
Department budgetDepartment of International Relations (Vote 6)
Official vehicleState-allocated vehicle (within R800,000 threshold)
Remuneration source — Government Gazette 53965, Notice 7004
Official gazette · effective 1 April 2025 ↗Presidency announcement: +3.8% from 1 April 2026. M4 found no 2026/27 National Executive determination or recommendation in the checked Commission libraries, so the exact updated package remains pending source reconciliation in Odyssey; it is not derived by arithmetic.
M4 source-cycle status: official-cycle-conflict-no-2026-27-schedule-found
No exact 2026-effective Minister, Deputy President or Deputy Minister package is published by Odyssey from this check. The known 3.8% announcement is shown separately from the exact 2025/26 Gazette schedule.
B
Legacy Odyssey Scorecard · Grade B · evidence review
Grade retained as editorial history; M3 does not translate it into a salary “value for money” verdict.
Odyssey's A-F grades are legacy editorial syntheses, not official government ratings and not re-certified by M3. M3 separates direct primary-source KPI snapshots from legacy unreconciled values; unreconciled targets, traffic lights, budget-spend rates, achievements and failures must not be read as current verified facts.
Strong international representation. ICJ and BRICS successes. Economic diplomacy expanding.
Key Performance Indicators
Bilateral agreements signedReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
15 new agreements
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
18 signed
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Consular case resolution rateReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
90% within 30 days
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
84%
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
BRICS and G20 SA positions adoptedReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
80% of SA positions in communiqués
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
85% reflected
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Legacy editorial positives
✓ICJ case against Israel advanced — provisional measures upheld
✓BRICS expansion positions strengthened SA influence
✓18 new bilateral agreements — exceeded target
Legacy editorial concerns
✗Consular case resolution rate below 90% target
✗GNU foreign policy differences occasionally public
Legacy budget-spend field
Numeric spend rate not rendered in M3 because the stored percentage has not been reconciled to a direct expenditure record. Legacy source label: National Treasury Vote 6, 2024/25.
Remuneration uses the source-bounded 2025/26 Gazette reference described above. Legacy Odyssey scorecards are editorial and under evidence review; only KPI rows labelled direct primary snapshot were reconciled in M3. Unreconciled budget-spend percentages are not rendered. Independent public-accountability tool — not affiliated with any political party.