The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, on behalf of the Statistics Council of South Africa and Statistics South Africa, invites you to a breakfast session on institution building in statistical systems. In addition to discussions to be held at the session on the subject of institution building, several presentations will be made – among which will be an address by Dr Jacob Ryten, a retired octogenarian from Statistics Canada.

Dr Ryten will share his knowledge on building institutions in statistical systems and will provide a frank assessment of where Stats SA stands as well as discuss the threats to watch out for and the new horizons of opportunities worth embracing.

To discuss the challenges that the South African official statistical system has experienced in the past 20 years, as well as faults and errors committed, will be Dr Lehohla and Dr Rashad Cassim, who chairs the Economic Statistics Committee of the Statistics Council.

The session will be attended by heads of various government departments, state institutions and business organisations as well as chief executives of financial institutions in the country.

The breakfast session will be held as follows:

Date: Friday, 2 September 2016
Venue: The Sheraton Hotel, 643 Stanza Bopape St, Pretoria, Tshwane (GPS: 25°44'41.9"S 28°12'43.4"E)
Time: 08H00 until 11H00

Please note that for planning purposes RSVP is necessary.


Madimetja Mashishi
Media Relations Officer
Statistics South Africa
170 Thabo Sehume Street, Pretoria CBD
Tel: 012 337 6456
Cell: 073 821 5994
E-mail: MadimetjaMa@statssa.gov.za OR madimetja@madimetja.co.za

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