Registration
Mandatory
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
Opening Session: Kalala
Opening and Welcome Event
9:15 AM
Keynote Address Professor Mandivamba Rukuni
Rural Industrialisation as a Catalyst for Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Development: Bridging the Middle-Income Trap. Facilitator Dr S Gwatidzo
9:45 AM
Keynote Speaker: Mr Kudzai Ndidzano Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife
Carbon trading and resilience building to climate change in Zimbabwe: Facilitator Dr S Gwatidzo Venue: Kalala
10:30 AM
Networking Break
ALL
10:45 AM
Session 1:5
Session Chair: Munyaradzi Tiny Gango Lupane State University
12:00 PM
Parallel Session 1:1
Session Chair: Professor Susan Burger, Vaal University of Technology
Parallel Session 1:2
Session Chair : Prof V.Z Nyawo- GZU
Session 1:3
Prof Tumisang Seodigeng Vaal University of Technology
Session 1:4
Session Chair: Professor Terrence Mushore University of Zimbabwe
Session 1:6
Dr Pitso Tebogo Vaal University of Technology
1:45 PM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Yacob T. Tesfaldet: Faculty of Mathematics & Data Science Emirates Aviation University
Living with Extreme Heat: Building Climate-Resilient, Smart and Sustainable Societies in an Era of Escalating Heatwaves. Facilitator Associate Professor Lazarus Maleho
2:00 PM
Key Note Speaker: Professor Timothy Dube The Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape
Water Security as the Foundation of Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Societies: Designing Systems for a Water-Secure Future. Facilitator Associate Professor Lazarus Maleho
2:30 PM
Key Note : Mr F. Mushosho Principal of Masvingo Teachers College
The Role of Teacher Education in Advancing Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development. Another Plenary that can be inserted even towards the end. The Principal, Masvingo Teachers College. Facilitator Associate Professor Lazarus Maleho
4:30 PM
Key Note Speaker : Prof Onismo Mutanga University of KwaZulu Natal
5:00 PM
Session 2.1
Session Chair: Professor Peter Osifo: Vaal University of Technology
Session 2.2
Session Chair : Dr Christopher Chitumwa Vaal University of Technology
Session 2.3
Session Chair Professor Costa Hofisi : North West University
Session 2.4
Session Chair Dr L. Zhou University of Fort Hare
Session 2.5
Session Chair: Ms Tsungai Nkoma University of Cape Town
Session 2.6
Session Chair Nandhipa Davies University of South Africa
6:30 PM
Welcome Event: All Delegates Invited
Elephant Hills Hotel : Swimming Pool
