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Program:
24 November:
Arrival, Johannesaburg International Airport
Received and met by: DFA, Mr. Mgotsi, Director Levant, Ms. Dadoo, Deputy
Director, Palestine and Israel Embassy of Palestine, Mr. Dahman, Counsellor.
25 November:
Meeting with Robin Cohen, Dean of Humanities, UCT, Cape Town
Political Studies Seminar: Developments in Palestinian Politics
Public Talk at IDASA: The Politics of Negotiation: Why the Oslo Accord
failed. Chaired by: Prof. Robin Cohen, and followed by a half-hour discussion.
Dinner for NGOs and other invited guests from the media and intellectuals:
Robin Cohen and wife, Crain Soudien, Head of Education UCT, Shabbir
Wadee, Head of Forensic Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Leslie London,
Prof. Of Health and Human Rights, UCT, Vincent Saldanha, Director, Legal
Resource Centre; Nomfundo Walaza, Director, Trauma Centre for Survivors
of Violence and Torture; Kanthan Pillay, E-TV; Aslam Fataar, Education
Dep. UCT, Ashraf Kagee, Assoc. Prof. Psychology, Stellenbosch.
26 November:
Visit to Robben Island, Ahmed Kathrada, Chairperson, Robben Island,
Museum Council for a guide.
District Six Museum Tour
Interview with E-TV
Joint event with Muslim Judicial Council and 'Not in My Name' , South
African Jewish group opposed to Israeli occupation ( Meeting followed
by Iftaar)
27 November:
Depart Cape Town to Johannesburg
Roundtable hosted by Institute for Global Dialogue
Roundtable Seminar, Center for Violence and Reconciliation
Visit to Lenasia
28 November:
SABC live radio interview
Meeting for officials in the Foreign Affairs Dep.
Meeting with Ebrahim Ebrahim, Advisor to the President
Lunch meeting with Directorate: Levant officials (Mr. Uys Viljoen, Ms
Roshan Dadoo, representative from the UN office in Pretoria, Mr. Sudeshin
Reddy and Mr. Iqbal Jazebai, Academic from UNISA).
Visit to Apartheid Museum
Interview with Radio 702
Dinner hosted by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
29 November:
South African Jewish Board of Deputies breakfast meeting
SABC Africa: TV interview on the Kenya bomb attacks for South African
Broadcast Company African Satellite Channel
'Why Negotiations Failed - What Future for Palestine? South African
Institute of International Affairs
Interview with John Battersby (group Political Editor of the Independent
newspapers
Meeting with Center for Policy Studies
30 November:
Tour of Soweto
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
1st December:
Free morning
"Deconstructing Palestine through Images' exhibition opening and
event by Palestine Solidarity groups
Departure
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