(31 Mar 2008) STORYLINE
1. Wide shot of audience listening to lecture by son of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear scientist and eldest son of Fidel Castro:
"I will focus in two aspect during my presentation. One is ways in which nuclear technology has been used in recent biomedical and other applications and - coherent synergies between nuclear techniques and enabler technologies in Cuban experience. Many discoveries and similar works made a significant contribution to develop in this issue."
3. Cutaway of projector screen with picture
4. Various cutaways of assembled media
5. Mid of people listening
6. Cutaway of screen
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear scientist:
"The collaboration between South Africa and Cuba has a tradition in medicine, in some fields related to engineering and construction. Now, we are expanding this collaboration to the fields of science and technology."
8. Various of people listening to lecture
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear scientist:
"Directly stated that this was a problem of national security - to allow Cuba to finish a nuclear, a peaceful nuclear power plant, not enrichment facilities, not plutonium, nothing like that. This discourse, the people to, our potential investors from western countries."
10. Cut away of projected diagram
11. Pan across people in audience
12. Diaz-Balart shaking hands with South African Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena
STORYLINE
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's eldest son and namesake was in South Africa on Monday to promote bilateral collaboration in science and technology.
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, a nuclear scientist, held talks with South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena, and then addressed a symposium in Pretoria, where he discussed advances in nuclear technology and how collaboration between the two countries could be improved.
"The collaboration between South Africa and Cuba has a tradition in medicine, in some fields related to engineering and construction. Now, we are expanding this collaboration to the fields of science and technology," Diaz-Balart told reporters, after the lecture.
The 56-year-old, popularly known as "Fidelito" did not make any mention of his ailing father.
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