AIDC's Communication Activist Training on the theme of unemployment and decent work kicks off on the 31st May with a seminar on The Economic Crisis, Mass Unemployment, and  Strategies Towards Decent Work For All. The seminar is open to all concerned by the high rate of unimployment in South Africa. 

DRAFT PROGRAMME

10h00 - 10h30  welcome & Introduction 

10h30 - 13h00 Neo liberalism & the Global Crisis: Locating SA's mass unemployment problem

1. Nature and scale of unemployment crisis in SA - What is the unemployment situation?

2. THe global crisis, shift and transformations in SA economy and impact on job creation

3. SA's macro economic policy and impact on jobs

13h00 - 14h00  LUNCH

14h00 -  15h30 Government responses to the job crisis

1. Pospects and strategies for 1/2 unimployment by 2014 - what is govt doing?

2. Respondent 

15h00 - 16h00 TEA

16h00 - 17h30 Alternatives for the creation of decent work

1. Alternative economic policy

2. Provision of a Basic Income Grant

3. Mass mobilization, campaigning & struggle

LOGISTICS

DATE: Monday 31 May 2010

TIME: 10h00 - 17h30

VENUE: River Club, Observatory, Cape Town

RSVP: Mzu Cabanga , tel 021 447 2525, email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it