{"id":8675,"date":"2016-10-18T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2016-10-20T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:28:26","slug":"media-invite-3rd-isibalo-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=8675","title":{"rendered":"Media Invite: 3rd ISIbalo Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\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 17 October 2016<\/p>\n<p><b>Media advisory <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Premier Mchunu &amp; Statistician-General hosts a symposium to discuss education in pursuit of eradicating the triple challenge of poverty, unemployment &amp; inequality <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, and the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Honourable Willies Mchunu, will host the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> ISIbalo Symposium on 20-21 October 2016 in eThekwini under the theme \u201c<i>Policy and Statistics in pursuit of quality education in South Africa &#8211; Promoting the education agenda towards eradicating poverty, inequality and unemployment in KwaZulu-Natal<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The symposium seeks to stimulate policy debate and lead a discourse towards improving the education dynamics in the province, reflect on current policy, effective programmes including advantages and challenges emanating and to reflect on recommendations that will assist in strengthening of the educational system in the province and country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The media briefing will be held as follows: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date\u00a0\u00a0 : Friday, 21 October 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time\u00a0\u00a0 : 9H00 AM<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Protea Hotel \u2013Karridene (Address: Old South Coast Road, Durban, eThekwini<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">GPS: 30\u00b007&#8217;36.5&#8243;S 30\u00b050&#8217;45.4&#8243;E)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>RSVP:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Dlamini<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 031 3600 671<\/p>\n<p>Cell: 079 513 7219<\/p>\n<p>Email: gabrield@statssa.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Felicia Sithole<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 012 339 2401<\/p>\n<p>Cell: 076 430 0693<\/p>\n<p>Email: FeliciaS@statssa.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>For media enquiries contact: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesedi Dibakwane<\/p>\n<p>Director: Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 012 310 8578<\/p>\n<p>Cell: 082 805 7088<\/p>\n<p>Email: LesediD@statssa.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Issued by Statistics South Africa<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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 17 October 2016 Media advisory &nbsp; Premier Mchunu &amp; Statistician-General hosts a symposium to discuss education in pursuit of eradicating the triple challenge of poverty, unemployment &amp; inequality &nbsp; The Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla, and the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Honourable Willies Mchunu, will host the 3rd ISIbalo Symposium on 20-21&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=8675\" 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":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,50,22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-invitation","category-poverty-and-inequality","category-work-and-labour-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}