The South African government will host a joint pre media briefing with World Economic Forum on Africa. The media briefing will mark the 25th World Economic Forum on Africa, which will be held in Cape Town, 3-5 June.
The media briefing is an opportunity by the Forum and the Government of South Africa to outline the expected outcomes of the meeting,  details of the programme and the participants that will be attending. The briefing will also highlight the various projects and initiatives that the Forum and its constituents have been engaged in during the past twelve months.
MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ARE INVITED AS FOLLOWS
Date:                Friday 29th May 2015
Time:               09.30 - 11.00 a.m.
Venue:             Ilanga Room, Hyatt Regency Johannesburg
                       191 Oxford Road, Rosebank 2196
                        Johannesburg
Speaker:          - Elsie Kanza, Director, Head of Africa, World Economic Forum
                        - The Hon. Jeff Radebe, Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, Government of South Africa
                       
Light refreshments will be served.  
SIGN-UP is mandatory to attend. Please reply by Thursday, 28 May via the link below.
·         I will attend the pre-meeting press conference on Friday 29th May

·         I will not attend

If there is a schedule clash, we would encourage you to forward this email to your colleague who may be interested to come.

For further information, please contact Clare O’Donovan, Senior Account Manager, Fleishman-Hillard, by e-mail at clare.odonovan@fleishman.com or by telephone at +27 11 548 2024.

We also encourage you to consult the useful links in the section below.
Yours sincerely,
Oliver Cann
Associate Director, Media
World Economic Forum
Oliver.Cann@weforum.org
Tel: +41 (0)79 799 3405

Useful Links for Media

• Follow the World Economic Forum on Africa at http://wef.ch/af15
•   Download the meeting app at https://toplink.weforum.org/apps
•   View the best Forum Flickr photos at http://wef.ch/pix
•  Watch live webcasts of sessions at http://wef.ch/live
•  Become a Facebook fan at http://wef.ch/facebook
•  Follow us on Twitter at http://wef.ch/twitter and http://wef.ch/livetweet
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Issued by Government Communication (GCIS) on behalf of WEF
27 May 2015