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- PRESS ALERT –


 * Civil Society Poverty Summit**
 * Theme: “Closing the Poverty Gap”**


 * The Media is cordially invited to a PRESS CONFERENCE on Sunday** **26 June 2005 at 3.00pm**
 * At Booysens Hotel, Cnr Booysens Road & Fraser Street, Booysens, Joburg**


 * Speakers will be:**

Willie Madisha – COSATU President Pumi Yeni – National Organiser, BIG Coalition Nceba Mafongisi – Advocacy Coordinator, Black Sash Rev Desmond Lesejane – SACC Mark Heywood – Treatment Action Campaign Representative from SACP Speakers to be confirmed

On Monday 27 June 2005, civil society activists from around South Africa will gather at Booysens Hotel in Booysens, Johannesburg, Gauteng, to deliberate on the key national question of poverty. The Summit will be hosted by the BIG Coalition.

The purpose of the gathering will be to: 1. To analyse the present poverty alleviation policy context 2. To re-commit to the principle of Comprehensive Social Protection (Including BIG) 3. To chart a way forward to forging a closer partnership with **all** concerned about poverty

For more information about the Summit or about the BASIC INCOME GRANT COALITION, please contact the following people:

Edwin Arrison, National Co-ordinator 084 7351835**
 * Pumi Yeni, National Organiser 072 3357423