SALO highlights
News, notices and events from SALO.
SALO Building Regional and International Consensus Workshop: EGYPT AND WESTERN SAHARA - 5 September 2013
First Session: Chair: Ms Carmen Smidt, ANC International Relations Manager, South South Cooperation To the left: Mr Ebrahim Ebrahim, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa - Topic: Briefing on South …
Building Regional and International Consensus Workshop: African Women and Peace Building - 20 August 2013
First Session Panel from left to right - Fatima Swartz,Chairperson, ACTION Support Centre, Steering Committee Abshiro Said Haji Mohamed, South African Somali Women’s Network Zeenat Adam, DIRCO, Director, Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean …
SALO BOOK LAUNCH - "South Africa – Zimbabwe Relations" - 16 July 2013
On the eve of Zimbabwe’s July 31st 2013 Election, the Southern African Liaison Office held their book launch for - “South Africa – Zimbabwe Relations: Volume 1 – Pre-colonial to 2006” - By the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO); …
SALO's Rebone Tau has been named one of the Mail & Guardian's top 200 young South Africans - 2013
“Solidarity” is an important word in 28-year-old Rebone Tau’s vocabulary. She believes Africa will prosper if it unites against the continent’s growing ills. It’s what first attracted the Soweto-born Tau to an advocacy job at the Southern …
Xavier Marchal
Xavier Marchal was the EU’s Ambassador in Harare from 2005 to 2010 during the years when SALO was developing cross-border links. He was an enthusiastic participant in SALO’s Building International Consensus network. He died on Saturday, 25 …
AFRICA DAY
This year Africa Day, the 25th May, marks 50 years of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). SALO will participate in a year-long focus on this anniversary and debates about the future of Africa. We have posted …
SALO CALLS ON PRESIDENT ZUMA
This March 2013 Judith Todd (SALO Board Member), accompanied by SALO staff members, was invited to call on H. E. President Jacob Zuma. Memories of events in the fight against apartheid had recently been refreshed in the heart-felt tributes …
"Zimbabwe: two days after the Referendum; and a tribute to the late Phyllis Naidoo with special reference to her time in exile in Zimbabwe." - 18th March 2013
**** Bishop Rubin Philip, Dean of the Province of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa and Chairperson of the SALO Board with Francisca Mdleleni (SALO Operations Manager) welcoming everyone to the event. Sukhthi Naidoo, daughter of the …
The Norwegian Ambassador visits SALO
The Norwegian Ambassador to SA H.E. Kari Bjørnsgaard (bottom left), visits the Cape Town office for discussions on Zimbabwe with SALO staff and PASSOP director Braam Hanekom (upper right)
Building Regional and International Consensus in Southern Africa: Botswana/Zimbabwe/South Africa: Diamonds
31 January 2013, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria From left to right: Ambassador Welile Nhlapo (Former National Security Advisor to the South African President; and Chair of the Kimberley Process, as of 1 January 2013), HE Kenny Kiniotiro …
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, …
OSISA DRC delegation from Johannesburg meets the Cape Town Congolese community at a meeting organised by SALO at refugee rights group, PASSOP’s office (September 2012)
Hubert Tshiswaka (OSISA Programme Manager: Regional and International Advocacy for the DRC); Hubert Tshiswaka interacting with the Cape Town Congolese community.
SALO Anti-xenophobia film screening Cape Town (30 August 2012)
Braam Hanekom, PASSOP Director discusses SALO and PASSOP’s collaborative DVD entitled: Together Against Hate with community members from Gugulethu and Khayaleitsha.
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, …
ANC policy conference, June 2012
Rebone Tau with H. E. President Zuma
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 …
Swazi Delegation of pro-democracy activists meets Cape Town chapter of the Swaziland Democracy Campaign (SDC) after the Swazi delegation had briefed senior South African parliamentary and government officials, September 2011.
The Swazi delegation, which was led by Osisa’s Swaziland Programme Manager, Muzi Masuku, included: Mrs Khangezile Dlamini-General Secretary, Council of Swaziland Churches, Mr. Mandla Hlatshwayo- Swazi in the Diaspora, Dr Sikelela …
