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2002 Conferences, seminars & workshops

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January

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
31 Jan – 4 Feb	World Economic Forum Meeting	WEF
31 Jan – 5 Feb	Word Social Forum	WSF

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February

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
8 Feb	Meeting on the practical implementation of the NEPAD agenda	France
9 - 15 Feb	SADC Council of Ministers Meeting	SADC
12 Feb	Eighth Session of the Commonwealth Consultative Group on Environment	CCGE
12 - 14 Feb	African Mining Indaba 2002	Minerals and Energy
12 - 14 Feb	Workshop for prevention of torture in Africa	ICD
14 Feb	International Conference: Third Annual Caring Communities for the 21st Century	UN
17 - 23 Feb	Inter-Provincial Traffic Policing Conference	Transport
18 Feb	Council of Education Ministers discuss drug policy in education	Education
18 - 22 Feb	Southern African Regional Workshop on stolen motor vehicles	SAPS
21 - 22 Feb	Progressive Heads of Government Summit, Stockholm
25 - 26 Feb	SA-Tunisia Business Forum	Foreign Affairs
25 Feb - 15 Apr	Inter-Congolese Dialogue	Foreign Affairs
26 - 28 Feb	Southern Africa Regional Conference on Money Laundering	SAPS
27 - 28 Feb	SA-Namibia bilateral discussions	Public Service and Administration

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March

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
2 – 5 Mar	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting - SA’s participation	Commonwealth
3 - 7 Mar	African Peace through Tourism Conference	IIPT
3 - 8 Mar	African Development Forum	ECA
4 – 15 Mar	Myburgh Commission Public Hearings	Justice and Constitutional Development
13 – 15 Mar	SA attends OAU Council of Ministers Meeting	OAU
14 - 15 Mar	Senior Management Service (SMS) Conference	DPSA
18 - 22 Mar	Kimberley Process Plenary Meeting	UN
18 - 22 Mar	International Conference on Financing for Development, first quarter 2002	UN
18 - 27 Mar	World Telecommunication Development Conference	ITU
18 Mar - 26 Apr	Fifty-eighth session of the Commission on Human Rights	UNHCHR

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April

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
8 - 12 Apr	Second World Assembly on Ageing	UN
12 Apr	Seminar on Volunteerism aimed at combating child abuse	CSIR
15 Apr	Council of Education Ministers meeting	Education
15 - 17 Apr	Conference on financing of NEPAD	NEPAD
15 - 19 Apr	"Parliament and the Media" Conference	Parliament/CPA
16 Apr	Environment & sustainable development workshop	North West
18 Apr	Moral Rabcdegeneration Summit	Health
19 Apr	Social Development partnership meeting with business	Social Development
21 - 22 Apr	KZN Taxi Enforcement Conference	KZN Transport
23 Apr	SA - Cuban Consultative Mechanism meeting	Foreign Affairs
25 Apr	Bridging the Gap Healthcare Conference	Health
29 Apr - 3 May	World Urban Forum	UN-Habitat

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May

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
2 – 16 May	31^st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights	Justice and Constitutional Development
6 May	Symposium on the State of the Motor Vehicle Accident Environment	RAF
6 - 11 May	OAU Ministerial Conference on drug trafficking in Africa	OAU
7 - 10 May	National Landcare Conference	Agriculture
7 - 10 May	Southern African Regional Conference on Stock Theft	SAPS
8 - 10 May	UN Spesial Session Children	UNICEF
9 - 10 May	National Housing Summit (postponed to October 2002)	Housing
11 - 12 May	African Food and Handicrafts Festival, Athens	Foreign Affairs
12 - 13 May	SA-Nordic Summit	Foreign Affairs
16 - 17 May	Volunteer Vision Conference	Social Development
16 - 17 May	International seminar towards successful outcomes for WSSD	Environmental Affairs & Tourism
19 - 22 May	World Ecotourism Summit	WTO/UNEP
21 - 22 May	AdFocus Conference - Government speeches - IMC presentation : parts 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 [powerpoint]	Financial Mail
21 - 23 May	National Youth Conference on Local Government	NYC
21 - 24 May	SA-Japan Partnership Forum	Foreign Affairs
22 - 2 May 5	Sustainable Justice 2002	UNEP
24 - 25 May	First Annual African Corporate Citizenship Convention	AICC
25 - 30 May	Africa and the World Summit on the Information Society	ITU
27 - 28 May	Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement	Foreign Affairs
30 - 31 May	Launch of International Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds	EU
27 May - 7 Jun	Final preparatory committee meeting for Johannesburg Summit	Environmental Affairs and Tourism
30 May - 1 Jun	HIV/AIDS and the Education Sector Conference	Education

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June

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
2 – 5 Jun	Conference on Coordination Action for Services for Children affected by HIV/AIDS	Social Development
3 Jun	Sustainable Transport for sustainable development	Transport
3 - 4 Jun	ICT Sector Summit	Nedlac
5 - 7 Jun	Africa Economic Summit 2002	WEF
5 - 8 Jun	Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities	UN
6 - 7 Jun	SALGA Communications Conference 2002	SALGA
7 - 14 Jun	SADC Council of Ministers Meeting	Foreign Affairs
10 - 13 Jun	World Food Summit	FOA
10 - 14 Jun	Ministerial gathering of the Commonwealth Science Council	CSC
10 - 14 Jun	NEPAD Implementation Committee meeting	NEPAD
11 - 12 Jun	Workshops on protection of children against child abuse	SAHRC
11 - 14 Jun	Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) Africa Region, Durban	Health
12 - 13 Jun	Home-Based Care Conference	Gauteng Health
14 - 15 Jun	SADC Council of Ministers Meeting	SADC
14 - 16 Jun	National History Teachers' Workshop	SAHP
17 - 19 Jun	International Conference on Youth in Conflict with the Law on the African Continent	Social Development
17 - 19 Jun	Continental Conference of Experts on the AU and NEPAD	AU
24 - 28 Jun	Seminar for African states on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons	Minerals and Energy International Atomic Energy Agency
26 - 28 Jun	G-8 Summit meeting	Foreign Affairs
27 - 28 Jun	Conference on building relationships between the private industry and commerce, the public sector and higher education	Ministry of Education Council on Higher Education
27 Jun – 2 Jul	Cross-Border Taxi-Summit	Transport
28 - 30 Jun	African Youth Dialogue on NEPAD, African Union and WSSD	NYC
28 Jun - 10 Jul	African Union Summit 2002	Foreign Affairs
30 Jun - 2 Jul	8th Annual Aviation and Allied Business Leadership Conference	Transport

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July

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
1 – 11	Inaugural Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, South Africa	Foreign Affairs
1 – 3	New World Wine Producers meeting, Cape Town	Agriculture
6	International Day of Cooperatives	UN
7 – 12	XIV International AIDS Conference	Barcelona AIDS 2002 Foundation
7 – 12	International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS)	Stats SA
8 – 12	3^rd Global Taxanomy Workshop, Pretoria	DACST
11 – 13	Global Summit of Women - SA’s participation	Environmental Affairs & Tourism
19 – 20	Eastern Cape Youth Commission conference	Eastern Cape Youth Commission
26 – 30	ACP-EU Forum on Research for sustainable Development, Cape Town	DACST
27	Parliament’s Public Dialogues Project 2002 visits Thaba Nchu & Kroonstad	SA Parliament
27 Jul – 2 Aug	Second Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning	COL
29 Jul – 1 Aug	African Sanitation and Hygiene Conference (Africasan)	Water Affairs
29 Jul – 13 Sep	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
30 Jul – 4 Aug	Global 2002 Smart Partnership International Dialogue	CPTM and MIGHT
31 Jul – 2 Aug	Northern Cape Women in Agriculture Conference	Agriculture, Land Reform, Environment & Conservation, N Cape

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August

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
5 Aug	Council of Education Ministers Meeting	Education
5 – 8 Aug	The Fourth Annual African Computing & Telecommunications Summit (ACT 2002), Nairobi	AITEC
5 – 9 Aug	SA/Brazil Joint Commission	Foreign Affairs
11 Aug	Alexandra (Gauteng) mini-summit on sustainable development	Alexandra Renewal Project
12 – 15 Aug	Africa Rail 2002	Terrapinn Limited
18 – 20 Aug	Global Judges Symposium on Sustainable Development and Role of Law	Justice and Constitutional Development
19 Aug – Aug 4 Sep	WSSD Civil Society Global Forum	Civil Society Secretariat
20 Aug	Financial Sector Summit	Nedlac
22 – 25 Aug	EnviroLaw 2002, ICC, Durban	ELS
26 Aug – 4 Sept	World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg - Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (SA) - Official UN site - Johannesburg World Summit Company - International Institute for Sustainable Development - SA participation - Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development	Environmental Affairs and Tourism
26 – 28 Aug	IPM 46^th Annual Convertion	IPM
28 Aug	Seminar on Renewable Energy	Minerals and Energy
29 Aug	Coal and Sustainable Development Conference	Minerals and Energy
29 Aug	KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government Education Indaba	KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government Education & Culture
29 – 31 Aug	Chief State Law Adviser’s AGM	Justice and Constitutional Development

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September

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
6 – 8 Sept	Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development meeting	The Presidency
12 - 16 Sept	57th United Nations General Assembly	UN
15 – 20 Sept	XXXIV International Congress on Military Medicine	ICMM
16 Sept	Council of Education Ministers meeting	Education
16 Sept	UN Summit on NEPAD	UN
16 - 18 Sept	International Economic and Management Sciences Conference	VTT
18 - 22 Sept	Aerospace and Defence 2002	AMD
19 - 21 Sept	Consultative Conference on Search and Rescue	Transport
23 Sept - 18 Oct	Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union	ITU
24 - 26 Sept	Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting	Commonwealth
26 - 27 Sept	National Skills Development Conference	Labour
27 Sept - 3 Oct	SADC Heads of State and Government meeting	SADC
29 Sept	2002 Annual Meeting of the IMF and World Bank	IMF and World Bank

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October

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
2 Oct	Media briefing on Cosatu strike action	GCIS
7 – 8 Oct	Western Cape disability conference	Western Cape
7 – 11 Oct	31st Annual Conference of the Parasitological Society of Southern Africa	PARSA
7 – 11 Oct	Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)	UN
7 -13 Oct	Imbizo Focus Week	GCIS
8 Oct	Limpopo Housing Summit	Housing
8 – 9 Oct	Gauteng AIDS Summit	Health, Gauteng
8 – 11 Oct	World Conference on Early Childhood Development	Education & Culture, KwaZulu-Natal
10 – 11 Oct	Public Service HIV/AIDS Indaba	Public Service and Administration
10 – 11 Oct	SA – Zimbabwe bilateral discussions	Foreign Affairs
12 – 13 Oct	International Investment Council meeting	GCIS
13 – 16 Oct	International Network on Cultural Policy	Arts and Culture
16 Oct	SA–Mexico Bilateral meeting	Foreign Affairs
16 – 21 Oct	Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development	UNECA
20 – 25 Oct	International Bar Association conference	International Bar Association
22 – 24 Oct	SA-Algeria Bi-national Commission	Foreign Affairs
22 – 24 Oct	African Aid, Disaster Management & Relief 2002 Conference and Exhibition
23 – 25 Oct	Tel.Com Africa 2002	Communications
23 – 25 Oct	South African Health Informatics Association (HISA) 2002 Conference	HISA
24 Oct	Media workshop on SA proposals to Cities	Environmental Affairs and Tourism
24 – 25 Oct	Business summit for partnership on social development	Social Development
28 – 31 Oct	Regional workshop on building e-governance for African countries (e-Africa workshop), Jhb	DPSA

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November

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
3 Nov	NEPAD Heads of State Implementation Committee meeting	Foreign Affairs
3 - 15 Nov	Cites meeting	CITES
4 - 6 Nov	ASEAN Summit - SA participation	Foreign Affairs
4 – 7 Nov	National Public Service Trainers Conference	SAMDI
4 – 8 Nov	Southern African Development Community (SADC)/EU meetings and conference	SADC
6 - 9 Nov	Northern Cape Trade Expo & Investment Seminar	Economic Affairs & Tourism, N Cape
7 Nov	SA-German Partnership on Co-operative Development Conference	Social Development
9 Nov	Nedlac Summit	NEDLAC
12 – 14 Nov	South Africa for the Global Advantage – Trade and Investment Summit 2002, Johannesburg	International Trade Group (ITG)
18 – 21 Nov	Green Cities, Sustainable Cities Congress	IERM
18 – 21 Nov	SA-Russia Joint Inter-Governmental Committee on Trade and Economic Co-operation	Foreign Affairs
21 – 22 Nov	1^st Annual National Tourism Conference	Environmental Affairs & Tourism
21 – 22 Nov	i³ Executive Dialogue for Southern Africa	Southern African Development Community (SADC), NEPAD, MIGA & DBSA
22 Nov	Gauteng Intergovernmental Forum conference	Gauteng Provincial Government

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December

Date	Conference, seminar, workshop	Organisation
1 – 6 Dec	Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators’ (CATA) Conference	SARS
2 - 6 Dec