Speaking to The Herald yesterday at the Tramways Building where the workshop is being hosted, event organiser Esther Wegner, from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, said the workshop was aimed at strengthening ties between South Africa and Germany. GIZ is a company which specialises in international development,
“There has been collaboration between our two countries for many years on a national level . . . for more than a year now we have been trying to elaborate on the collaborative work,” she said.
The four-day information-sharing session, titled “South African German City Network for Integrated and Liveable Neighbourhoods”, has been punted as a joint endeavour which will see South Africa and Germany championing an alliance on integrated urban development.
