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The Africa and the Middle East Conference was well attended and commenced with a pre-conference dinner on Monday the 27th November, with FW de Klerk being the Guest of Honour and after dinner speaker.

Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool officiallly opened the conference on Tuesday the 28th of November, and said that "the time was right for a major convergence between Arabs and Africans." He also said that Arabs were welcome in South Africa and would feel particularily at home in Cape Town, which was a springboard for investments into Africa.

Deputy Reserve Bank Governor Dr Xolile Guma said the inflation rate in most African countries was about 10% and declining, a dramatic improvement compared with 50% in 1994.

Istithmar Leisure, a subsidary of Dubai World, the conglomerate which has invested in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, was represented by the CEO, David Spencer, who said that the company intended to invest more in South Africa and throughout the rest of the continent.
Dubai World Company Nakheel Hotels & Resorts CEO James Wilson, who spearheaded the R7bn acquisition, said that he believed South Africa's foreign tourist arrivals were low in international terms although it had some of the best tourism assets in the world, such as mountains, coastlines, winelands and golf courses. "South Africa has huge, largely untapped investment potential," he said.

Foreign Affairs Department Chief Director for the Middle East, Johann Marx, noted that South Africa's trade with the region had grown from about R5,6bn in 1994 to R56,13bn last year.

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Neil Carney
Manager, Government of Dubai: Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing
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Phillip de Sylva
Vice President: Operations (South Africa & Indian Ocean)IFA Hotels and Resorts
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Julian Ebai
Managing Director, Jetplay Consulting on behalf of the Cameroon Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mining and Crafts
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Dr Xolile Guma
Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank
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Brian Irvine
Head of Specialised Finance, Investec Bank Ltd
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Andrew Jordan
Director of Development, Nakheel Hotels & Resorts - A Dubai World Company
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Jonathan Maehler
Director, BDO Spencer Steward (KZN) Inc
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Johann Marx
Ambassador, South African Department of Foreign Affairs
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Patrick McGurk
Head of Tax Practice, Cliffe Dekker
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Farouk Mohammed
Managing Partner, Grant Thornton, Dubai
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Sheryl Ozinsky
Chief Executive Officer Designate, Cape Town Routes Unlimited
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Ebrahim Rasool
Premier, Western Cape Provincial Government
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Dr Rateb Shallah
President, Federation of Islamic Chambers of Commerce, Industry & Trade, and the Federal Chambers of Commerce of Syria
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Juerg Siegenthaler
Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Kempinski Hotels
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David Spencer
Chief Executive Officer, Istithmar Leisure - A Dubai World Company
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Kez Taylor
Managing Director, ALEC - Al Jaber LEGT Engineering and Contracting
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Bill Walshe
Chief Marketing and Business Innovation Officer, Jumeirah
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FW de Klerk

Stacey Farao, FW de Klerk, Kamreya Clark and
Elita de Klerk FW de Klerk, Dr Anita Worrall, Farouk Mohammed and James Wilson Alan Demby and Tello Tebesi, one of the Gold Medallion winners. HE Mr Salem Al Zamanan, Kuwait Ambassador, with FW de Klerk Rebecca Pearce, Daniel Bloch and Julian Ebai

Brian Irvine, Patrick McGurk, HE Mohamed Jamil Muharram, Yemen Ambassador Phillip de Sylva - IFA Hotels and Resorts

Dr Rashan, Abdulla Rahma, Lyndon Worrall, and HE Ismaeel Obaid Yousef Al Ali, UAE Ambassador Juerg Siegenthaler - Kempinski Hotels

Neil Carney, Government of Dubai: Dept of Tourism & Commerce Marketing Hassen Adams and Julian Ebai

Audience

Dr Denis Worrall, Farouk Mohammed and Martin Jansen van Vuuren Hassen Adams, Hilda Ndude, Dr Denis Worrall, Gasant Orrie and De Buys Scott

Nyrmin Farouk Mohammed, Elita de Klerk,
Dr Denis Worrall and Alan Demby
Lyndon Worrall and Ebrahim Rasool

Alan Demby of the South African Gold Coin Exchange and FW de Klerk
Alan Demby and Craig Watson, also a Gold Medallion winner. Dr Denis Worrall, Elita de Klerk and Dr Anita Worrall

Stacey Farao, Denise Spaull and Tania Bekker

Abdulla Rahma, BDO Jawad Habib - Bahrain

Juerg Siegenthaler, Bill Walshe, Andrew Jordan and Phillip de Sylva Bill Walshe - Jumeirah

Audience

Hassen Adams, Naas Botha, James Wilson, Sheryl Ozinsky, Dr Denis Worrall, and Dirk Hattingh James Wilson - Nakheel Hotels & Resorts - A Dubai World Company Naas Botha and Lyndon Worrall

Sheryl Ozinsky, Rev Chris Nissen and Julian Ebai

HE Mr Zayed R Al-Naemi, Qatar Ambassador, with
Dr Denis Worrall and Abdulla Rahma

Omega Investment Research is a South African / UK / Australian investor relations company with representatives in various international centres around the world. Established in 1987, Omega has organised over 130 global investment-type conferences - in centres as diverse as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt, Singapore, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Amman, Ramallah, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Athens, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Istanbul and Johannesburg.

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