30 August,
2002
1(superscript: st) Floor A-Block Metropolitan
Centre
158 Loveday Street Braamfontein
Johannesburg
P O Box 1049 Johannesburg
2000
Tel: 011 407 7226 Fax: 403 3494/403
7738
E-Mail:
Mbangwax@joburg.co.za
Cell: 082 467
9230
Press Release
To: All News
Editors
From: The City of
Johannesburg
Joburg Mayor welcomes World Health
Organisation
South African Health Minister Dr Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang and the Mayor of
the host city of the
2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
Amos Masondo
will host a welcome dinner for the heads of
delegations
attending the Symposium on Health and Sustainable
Development.
The symposium, one of the parallel events of the
WSSD is co-hosted, by the
World Health Organisation
and the South African Health Ministry
in
association with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
and a number of
other international health
organisations.
The Symposium will be
held on Saturday 31 August at Ubuntu Conference
Centre
and it will be made of five plenary sessions focusing on
Investing
in Health, Children's Health and Environment,
Research, Human health and
Sustainable Development,
Intersectoral Action in practise and Health and
Sustainable Development
issues in the SADC country.
Minister Tshabalala-Msimang
and Mayor Masondo will from 18:30 in
the
evening at the Civic Theatre will welcome
to Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Director General of WHO and leaders
of delegations on behalf of people of
South Africa and
Johannesburg. As the leaders will be extending
South
African hospitality to the world and Southern African health
leaders, they
will also share the South African experience on health
issues.
For more information please contact Mbangwa Xaba
Mbangwa
Xaba
Media Liaison
Tel: 407 7226
Fax: 403 3494
082 467 9230
Or visit our website www.joburg.org.za