Media Advisory: The Department of International Relations and Cooperation to host South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) one day workshop on the events in Tunisia.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 09 March 2011
Venue: OR Tambo Building
460 Soutpansberg Road
Rietondale
MEDIA PROGRAMME:
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome: Ms. Ruby Marks, Chief Director, Gender,
Department of International Relations and Cooperation.(DIRCO)
9:05 – 9:10. Welcome: Ms. Pumla Radebe, Chairperson of the Board of the Independent Development Trust
9:10 – 9:25. Presentation: The 2006 Chile Tunisia Study Tour on Poverty and its Recommendations to Government (Ms. Girlie Silinda or Ms. Marthe Muller, South African Women in Dialogue)
9:25 – 9:45 Presentation: Tunisia – Poverty Eradication and the Jasmine Revolution ( Ambassador Makina)
9:45 – 10: 30 Dialogue and discussion
10:30 – 11:00 TEA
11:00 – 11:20 Presentation: SA’s anti-poverty strategy versus the Tunisian poverty eradication approach (Dr. Vusi Gumede, University of Johannesburg)
11:20 – 11:40 Strategic Planning and SA’s New Growth Path
(Mr. Joel Netshitenzhe, Executive Director Mapungubwe Institute)
11:40 – 12:30 Dialogue and discussion
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 13:50 Presentation: The State of SA’s Youth (Mr. Steven Ngobane, CEO of NYDA, and response by Ms. Dumisile Nxumalo of the SOMAFCO Trust.)
13:50 – 14:30 Dialogue and discussion
14:30 – 15:30 Facilitated Dialogue and Discussion: The unfolding events in Tunisia: Implications for a Developmental State
15:30 – 15:45 Summary and Way Forward: Prof. Edith Vries
15:45 –16:00 Vote of thanks (DIRCO)
RSVP: Media Liaison: Curtis Singo on 072 625-7060 /SingoC@dirco.gov.za
Issued by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation
460 Soutpansberg
Rietondale
08 March 2011
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