Statement on the Department of Foreign Affairs' Support for the South Africa - Uganda Student Exhange Programme

The Department of Foreign Affairs will, together with the Department of Education, promote the student exchange programme between South Africa and Uganda, by providing financial and logistical assistance to the BB Myataza Secondary School in Daveyton, Queens High in Kensington and Sacred Heart College in Observatory who will host King's College Budo School from Kampala, Uganda, visiting South from 4th-16th March 2002.

This programme provides the Department with an excellent opportunity to strengthen and implement South Africa's foreign policy objectives, strategic priorities and activities through the youths of Uganda and South Africa more specifically in:

· Building a better Africa and a better world for all.
· People to People Co-operation in addressing issues of xenophobia.
· Building a Vision of an African Rennaissance which brings peace, prosperity, democracy, sustainable development, progressive leadership, good governance, the roll-out of NEPAD especially in the run up to the Inaugural Summit of the African Union.

Students will visit the Voortrekker Monument, the National Art Gallery, the Pretoria Civic Theatre and the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the Market Theatre, Sandton City, Gold Reef City and the IMAX Theatre in Johannesburg and Sun City as part of their programme in South Africa.

King's College Budo is currently in South Africa after which the B.B Myataza Secondary School will then visit Uganda early in May 2002 also for two weeks.

Issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs
Private Bag X152
Pretoria
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9 March 2002