Jobs and Poverty Conference - Birchwood Hotel 18-19 June 08-06-07

 

Jobs and Poverty Campaign Conference

COSATU's Ninth National Congress decided "to make the Jobs and Poverty Campaign the centrepiece of our programme in the coming period". To this end a national Jobs and Poverty Campaign broad front summit conference has been arranged for 18-19 June 2007 under the theme: Create Quality Jobs, Fight Poverty and Inequalities! A very broad range of representative organisations have been invited.

The agenda will include sessions on:

• Jobs and Poverty Campaign: the economic rationale
• Understanding unemployment and creating decent and quality jobs
• Poverty and inequality
• Public service delivery
• Agrarian and land reform

There will also be sessions discussing the Constitutional Review, which will cover such matters as floor-crossing legislation, abolishing provinces, the electoral system, the property clause and the transformation of the judiciary.

A full programme, with speakers, will be sent to you next week.

The media are very welcome to attend but in order to make arrangements for catering, security etc. we need you to apply for accreditation by replying to this email. The details are:

DATE: 18-19 June 2007
TIME: 09h00 each day

VENUE: Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre, North Rand Road, Boksburg.