Detaily

Programme

10.00 h

Welcome address

Dr. Gerhard Wahlers,

Director of the Department for International Cooperation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin

10.15 h

Elections as a challenge for African opposition parties

Keynote speech: Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, MP, President of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), South Africa

Panel discussion:

• Trudy Stevenson, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe
• Afonso Dhlakama, President of Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo), Mozambique
• Isaias Samakuva, President of União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (Unita). Angola
• Arnold Vaatz, MP, Deputy Minority Leader of CDU/CSU, Germany

Facilitator:

Professor Siegmar Schmidt, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

11.30 h

Party coalition building: African experiences

Keynote speech: Denis Kadima, Executive Director of EISA, South Africa

Panel discussion:

• Alois Gende, MP, Secretary General of Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Namibia
• Shuma Mwasi, People’s Progressive Party (PPM), Malawi; Responsible for opposition coalition manifesto in 2004
• Manecas Daniel, MP, President of Partido Renovador Democrático (PRD), Mozambique, member of the electoral alliance Renamo-União Eleitoral
• Paul Themba Nyathi, Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe

Facilitator:

Dr. Gero Erdmann, Senior Research Fellow at the Institut für Afrikakunde, Berlin

13.00 h

Lunch

14.00 h

Corruption in politics – an issue to address for opposition parties

Keynote speech: Stéphane Stassen, Diana Rodriguez, Transparency International

Panel discussion:

• Hartwig Fischer, MP, CDU/CSU, Germany
• Inka Mars, MP, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), South Africa
• Carlos Kandanda, MP, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (Unita). Angola
• Justine Malewezi, MP, Independent, former Vice-President of Malawi
• Katuuire Kaura, MP, President of Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Namibia

Facilitator:

Tim Hughes, Parliamentary Research Fellow of the South African Institute of International Affairs

15.15 h

Coffee / Tea Break

15.30 h

Identification of national priorities for African opposition parties

• Angola:

  Isaias Samakuva, President of União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (Unita). Angola

• Malawi:

  Shuma Mwasi, People’s Progressive Party (PPM), Malawi

• Mozambique:

  Afonso Dhlakama, President of Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo), Mozambique

• Namibia:

  Katuuire Kaura, MP, President of Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Namibia

• South Africa:

  Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, MP, President of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), South Africa

• Zimbabwe:

  Paul Themba Nyathi, Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe

Followed by discussion

Facilitator:

Andrea E. Ostheimer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, South Africa

17.30 h

Group photo

18:00 h

Cocktail reception