18 August 2010
The SACP in collaboration with the International Left Forum (VIF) of the Swedish Left Party and the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) will host the 2nd African Participatory Democracy Conference (APDC) and the 1st Africa Left Network Forum (ALNEF) meeting at the Vincent Mabuyakhuklu Conference Centre in Newtown, from the 19th to 20 August 2010.
The APDC conference will be attended by almost 120 delegates drawn from both national and international left progressive forces of the continent and fraternal parties from Latin America and Europe. Whereas the ALNEF meeting will bring together, about 30 left parties from the continent, including former liberation movements, and representatives of the Sao Paulo Forum (Foro de Sao Paulo) and the European Left (EL).
Members of the press are hereby invited to attend the conference.
See the programme below (please note that the ALNEF Programme will be circulated tomorrow)
PROGRAM OF THE 2ND AFRICA PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY CONFERENCE, 19-20 AUGUST 2010, JOHANNESBURG
“Our conception of democracy in Africa: Tasks and Challenges”
TIME |
ITEM | PRESENTER/CHAIRPERSONS |
Thu 19 Aug |
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08h00-08h30 |
Registration | |
08h30-08h40 |
Singing of The Internationale | Chair: Chris Matlhako SACP Secretary for International Relations |
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Welcome, acknowledgements and messages from fraternal parties | Cde Crosby Moni SACP Central Committee Member |
08h40-09h00 |
Official Opening address: “The Left’s conception of democracy in Africa: Tasks and Challenges” | Dr. Blade Nzimande SACP General Secretary |
09h00-09h30 |
Keynote AddressChallenges for the state in Africa, tasks and opportunities for progressives and the Left | Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane SA Minister of International Relations and Cooperation |
10h30-10h45 |
Comfort break | |
Panel 1 |
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10h45-13h00 |
Democracy - Opportunities, Dangers and Political tasks for the Left in Africa The impact of the global capitalist crisis and political program of the Left in Africa The politics and ideological practices of democracy in Africa. Strengths and weaknesses for the Left’s new program? | Cde Gwede Mantashe ANC Secretary General Cde Jeremy Cronin SACP Deputy general Secretary Dr. ElSafie Mohamed El Maki Ahmed Communist Party of Sudan |
11h30-11h45 |
Comfort Break | |
Panel 2 |
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14h00-16h00 |
Crisis of political conditions in African states, the experiences and spaces for Left organising Experiences of popular participation: The process of building up an African regional school of Via Campesina in Maputo. Democracy and Development, the practice of participatory democracyThe state and practice of locally inclined democratic politics in Uganda’s last elections | Cde Femi Falana National Conscience Party, Nigeria Diamantino Nhamposa Via Campesina, Mozambique Cde Lennart Kjorling Left International Forum, SwedenCde Justus Tukwasibwe Weijagye Kabale Socialist Club, Uganda |
16h00-16h15 |
Comfort Break | |
Panel 3 |
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16h15-18h00 |
The situation of left organisations, their role in political struggles in Africa | Djimadoum Ley-Ngardigal, Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism, ChadJean-Pierre Merabahizi, UDF-Inkingi, RwandaKarar Kamaleldin Ahmed, EthiopiaNeo Simutanyi¸ Center for Policy Dialogue, Lusaka, Zambia |
Fri 20 Aug |
Chairperson: Joyce Moloi-Moropa | |
Panel 4 |
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08h30-10h00 10h00-11h30 |
Trade unions, Civil Society and their role in Africa’s struggle to deepen democracy | Iqbal Jhazbhay, ANC, Experiences of Somaliland in the HornYunus Carrim, Mwandawiro Mghanga, Social Democratic Party of Kenya Akanyang Magama, Secretary General, Botswana National FrontCosatu Mohamed Jmour, Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party of Tunisia |
11h30-12h00 |
Presentation of draft motions on Cuba, Palestine, Western Sahara, Sudan, Somaliland and Somalia, on Peace in Africa, immigration, climate change, gender struggles in Africa, against militarisation and Africom | Cde Solly Mapaila SACP Secretary for Organising and Cadreship Development |
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Presentation of the draft Participatory Democracy Conference declaration and adoption | Cde Solly Mapaila SACP Secretary for Organising and Cadreship Development |
12h00-12h30 |
Summary of the main conference outcome | |
12h30-12h45 |
Closing Remarks | Mussie Ephrem, Left Party of Sweden Crosby Moni, SACP |
12h45 |
Lunch and departure |
Issued by the SACP.
Contact:
Malesela Maleka
SACP Spokesperson – 082 226 1802