{"id":2921,"date":"2014-07-24T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2014-10-24T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:50:10","slug":"media-advisory-south-africas-statistics-symposium-towards-strengthening-the-south-african-national-statistics-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: South Africa\u2019s Statistics Symposium \u2013 Towards strengthening the South African National Statistics System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">23 July 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contact: Lesedi Dibakwane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">0828057088<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:lesedid@statssa.gov.za\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">lesedid@statssa.gov.za<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">South Africa\u2019s Statistics Symposium \u2013 Towards strengthening the South African National Statistics System\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Statistics South Africa and the Statistics Council will host a three day Statistics Symposium on strengthening the South African National Statistics System. The Symposium will be opened by the Minister in the Presidency, Honourable Minister Jeff Radebe and will host a range of speakers from South Africa and beyond who will speak on various aspects of coordinating the statistical production within a national statistics system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some of the topics to be covered include a discussion on the fundamental principles of official statistics, country practices in implementing the National Statistics System, demand for statistics in monitoring and evaluation, the National Development Plan (NDP) and the post 2015 development agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>When:<\/b> Tuesday, 29 &#8211; 31 July 2014, from 09H00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Where:<\/b> St Georges Hotel and Conference Centre, 58 Doornkloof, Goede Hope Avenue, M57, Rietvleidam<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RSVP:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Felicia Sithole 0764300693<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">felicias@statssa.gov.za<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 23 July 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contact: Lesedi Dibakwane 0828057088 lesedid@statssa.gov.za South Africa\u2019s Statistics Symposium \u2013 Towards strengthening the South African National Statistics System\u00a0 Statistics South Africa and the Statistics Council will host a three day Statistics Symposium on strengthening the South African National Statistics System. The Symposium will be opened by the Minister in the Presidency,&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2921\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-invitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}