SRSA DG welcomes home exchange program youth
Johannesburg, 09 June 2013. Sport for Development is an emerging topic in
South Africa that is gradually gaining established ground. Therefore 20 South
Africans were given the opportunity to travel to Germany for a study trip where
they received first hand experience of Sport for Development Initiatives in
Germany that can have a huge impact on their work in South Africa.
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Willi Lemke visits YDF in Mamelodi
Mamelodi, 11 February 2013.
‘The main reason for me visiting YDF and South Africa again is that we at
the UN believe in sustainability. I am here to see what YDF has been doing
after 2010, and to meet again with some of the youth leaders that I know from
the UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camps and follow up on their development.’ Wilfried
Lemke, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for
Development and Peace, made time from his busy schedule to visit YDF in the township of Mamelodi.
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YDF meets German football star Michael Ballack
Pretoria, 18 January 2013. On 18 January German football star Michael Ballack and UNAIDS
Executive Director Michel Sidibé were welcomed by German Ambassador Dr Horst
Freitag at his residence in Pretoria. Michael Ballack is visiting South Africa
as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador to launch the new UNAIDS ‘Protect the Goal’
advocacy campaign.
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