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, 9 March 2011
Venue: OR Tambo Building, 460 Soutpansberg Road, Rietondale
Media programme
9h00 to 9h05: Welcome: Ms Ruby Marks, Chief Director, Gender, Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)
9h05 to 9h10: Welcome: Ms Pumla Radebe, Chairperson of theBoard of the Independent Development Trust
9h10 to 9h25: 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)
9h25 to 9h45: Presentation: Tunisia – Poverty Eradication and the Jasmine Revolution (Ambassador Makina)
9h45 to 10h30: Dialogue and discussion
10h30 to 11h00: Tea
11h00 to 11h20: Presentation: SA’s anti-poverty strategy versus the Tunisian poverty eradication approach (Dr Vusi Gumede, University of Johannesburg)
11h20 to 11h40: Strategic Planning and South Africa’s (SA) New Growth Path (Mr Joel Netshitenzhe, Executive Director, Mapungubwe Institute)
11h40 to 12h30: Dialogue and discussion
12h30 to 13h30: Lunch
13h30 to 13h50: Presentation: The State of SA’s Youth (Mr Steven Ngobane, CEO of National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), and response by Ms Dumisile Nxumalo of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) Trust.)
13h50 to 14h30: Dialogue and discussion
14h30 to 15h30: Facilitated dialogue and discussion: The unfolding events in Tunisia: Implications for a Developmental State
15h30 to 15h45: Summary and Way Forward: Professor Edith Vries
15h45 to 16h00: Vote of thanks (DIRCO)
RSVP:
Curtis Singo
Cell: 072 625 7060
E-mail: SingoC@dirco.gov.za
