2006
17 October 2006
Misty Hills � Gauteng province - Thursday, 19 October 2006
08h00 - 09h00: Registration
09h00 � 10h00: Opening ceremony
Programme Director: Ms Anita Soni
09h00 � 09h15: Welcome by: Mr M Shilowa, Premier of the Gauteng
province
09h15 � 09h45: Opening address: Skills conference � Government perspective, Mr
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
09h45 � 10h15: Business perspective on skills development in the tourism
sector, Dr Danisa Baloyi
10h15 � 10h45: Organised labour perspective of skills development in the
tourism sector, Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, Congress of South African Trade Unions
(Cosatu)
10h45 � 11h15: Community perspective on tourism skills development, Ms Zanele
Twala, Executive Director: South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO)
11h15 � 11h45: Tea break
11h45 � 12h15: Significance of the skills conference, MrThabo Mahlangu,
Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and Training Authority (THETA) Board
Chairperson
12h15 � 12h45: International best practices: World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
Education Division: Mr Marcel Leijzer
12h45 - 13h45: Lunch break
13h45 - 14h45: Preliminary report on findings of the skills audit/research:
Dr Patrick Matlou Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT)
14h45 - 15h00: Questions and discussion
15h00 � 17h00: Commissions (five groups)
Co-ordination and alignment of stakeholder partnerships: Government �
Facilitator: Ms Aruna Singh Department of Education (DoE), Private Sector �
Facilitator: Mr Brett Dungan Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa
(Fedhasa), Organised Labour � Facilitator: Ms Valaine Lategan Department of
Labour (DoL), Communities - Facilitator: Ms Zanele Twala (SANGOCO) (TBC) Scarce
and critical skills and prioritisation of interventions: Ms Elizabeth Thobejane
(DoL)
17h00 � 19h00: Leisure break
19h00: Dinner and entertainment
19h15: Programme Director: Chief Operating Officer (COO) � Mr Charles
Ndabeni
Opening remarks: Mr Andre Fourie, Chief Executive Officer (CEO): National
Business Initiative (NBI)
Entertainment and dinner
Vote of thanks: Advocate Cawe Mahlati Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Gauteng
Tourism Authority (GTA)
Entertainment
Misty Hills � Gauteng province - Friday, 20 October 2006
Programme Director: Mr Charles Ndabeni
Report back from commissions
09h00 � 09h30: Co-ordination and alignment of stakeholder partnerships: Mr B.
Dungan (FEDHASA)
09h30 � 10h00: Questions/ comments/ inputs
10h00 - 10h30: Scarce and critical skills and prioritisation of interventions:
Ms Elizabeth Thobejane (DoL)
10h30 � 11h00: Questions/ comments/ inputs
11h00 � 11h30: Tea break
11h30 � 12h30: Discussion and adoption of a declaration statement and draft
action plan
12h30 � 12h45: Signing ceremony with media presence Government Business
Organised Labour Communities
12h45 � 13h00: Closure Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental
Affairs and Tourism
13h00: Lunch
Issued by: Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
17 October 2006
Source: Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (http://www.deat.gov.za)
