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The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) is an office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC). It is the official vehicle for contact and dialogue between the Catholic Church in South Africa on the one hand, and the country’s Parliament and government on the other. It provides an avenue for the Church – as part of civil society – to contribute to debates on issues of public policy, to exert an influence for the common good in areas of political, economic and social concern, and to help shape legislative and policy developments.

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Democracy Digest 14Southern African Elections by Mike Pothier

2024 has been a bumper year for elections, with people in a number of heavyweight democracies going to the polls: Indonesia, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, the USA, Mexico, Pakistan, and the world’s largest democracy, India. Southern African has also had a larger than usual number of elections, with South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Mauritius, the […]

Briefing Paper 614 – Scapegoating: The Sin of Shifting Blame by Peter-John Pearson

Over the first few weeks of November 2024, two topics have dominated the local news. Both have quickly become lightning rods for a fresh outpouring of xenophobic activity. Firstly, the horrific spike in deaths and severe illness, especially amongst children, due to eating toxic foods sold mostly by spaza shops. BP 614 Scapegoating – The […]

Response –4th December 2024 – A Failure to Agree on Plastics by Peter-John Pearson

The fifth, and what was hoped to be the final, meeting of 175 countries (the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Five for a Global Plastics Treaty) seeking to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, ended on 1st December without the hoped-for agreement. Negotiations will resume in 2025, and it was accepted that the ‘Chairperson’s […]

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