Policy dialogues
Reports from SALO’s dialogues, where government, civil society and international partners meet in a safe space to work through a crisis.
Building Regional and International Consensus in Southern Africa: Botswana/Zimbabwe/South Africa: Refugees, Migrants, Diaspora
30 January 2013, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria Facilitator: Tara Polzer Ngwato (Migration and conflict transformation expert and SALO consultant) Braam Hanekom, Director of PASSOP (left) and Bongani Masuku, International Relations Secretary, …
Building International Consensus on Swaziland, Zimbabwe and the DRC, October 2012, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria
Participants at the Swaziland, Zimbabwe and DRC workshop H.E. Rosalind Marsden, EU’s Special Representative for Sudan/South Sudan. She was the keynote speaker at SALO’s first Building International Consensus workshop on Sudan/South Sudan, …
Public dialogue on the ANC’s draft international relations policy document
Public dialogue on the ANC’s draft international relations policy document which at the time was due to be presented at the ANC policy conference in June 2012. The meeting was facilitated under the aegis of the EU –South Africa Dialogue on …
Briefing to diplomats by Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, South Africa's Special Envoy to the DRC, Pretoria May 2012
Participants interacting at a SALO briefing meeting to diplomats by South Africa’s Special Envoy to the DRC, Ambassador Welile Nhlapo Mr Hubert Tshiswaka (OSISA Programme Manager: Regional and International Advocacy for the DRC) expressing …
Launch of SALO’s project in support of the EU-South Africa Dialogue on Peace and Security 3rd May 2012 Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria
Ambassador Lindiwe Zulu (President Jacob Zuma’s International Relations Advisor and Spokesperson for the SADC mediation team for Zimbabwe) with Rebone Tau (SALO Liaison and Advocacy Co-ordinator) posing with an exquisite shared birthday …
First Zimbabwean Roadmap workshop, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria May 2011
The discussion was led by Ambassador Lindiwe Zulu, President Zuma’s International Relations Advisor and Spokesperson for the SADC endorsed mediation team on Zimbabwe Vasu Gounden (Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD), May 2011 (From …
The acting head of the World Bank in Zimbabwe and Dr Ibbo Mandaza
The acting head of the World Bank in Zimbabwe, Mungai Lenneiye (right), greets Dr Ibbo Mandaza of executive director of the Southern African Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust, before addressing a SALO forum in Pretoria (October 2010)
Colonel Ribbon Mosholi addresses a SALO workshop (Oct 2010)
Colonel Ribbon Mosholi (ANC International Relations Manager North- South Cooperation), addresses a SALO workshop (October 2010)
Aziz Pahad at a SALO workshop (May 2010)
Aziz Pahad, former SA Deputy Foreign Minister, pays tribute to two distinguished Swedish diplomats on their retirement, at a SALO workshop May 2010. Ambassador Sten Rylander and Tor Sellstrom of the Swedish International Development Agency …
Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai
Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai, MDC President and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, addressing SALO’s Building International consensus network (9 May 2010)
PUDEMO President Mario Masuku shortly after his release
PUDEMO President Mario Masuku speaks at SALO’s first Building International Consensus on Swaziland workshop in Pretoria shortly after his release from a year’s detention. (October 2009)
Hon. Elton Mangoma
Hon. Elton Mangoma, then Zimbabwean Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister (now Minister of Energy and Power Development) speaking at a SALO investment workshop (April 2009)
Madam Justice Navanethem Pillay
South African Madam Justice Navanethem Pillay, UN Human Rights Commissioner, addressing a SALO meeting In Cape Town (January 2009).
Dumiso Dabengwa (December 2008)
Dumiso Dabengwa (former Zimbabwean Minister of Home Affairs and a former Zanu- PF Politburo member) addresses a SALO consensus-building workshop at Burgers’ Park Hotel in Pretoria (December 2008)
Simba Makoni at a SALO workshop (Dec 2008)
Simba Makoni (his former positions include: executive secretary of SADC, Zimbabwean Minister of Finance and Zanu-PF Politburo member) addressing a SALO workshop on Zimbabwe (December 2008).
SALO workshop - June 2007
From left to right: Thokozani Khupe, then MDC vice president (now Zimbabwe’s Deputy Prime Minister), Ebrahim Ebrahim, then head of the ANC International Affairs Committee (now Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation’s) …
