On the 16th July, the SACBC Parliamentary Liaison Office together with NICRO, the Western Cape Department of Correctional Services as well as the Prison Care and Support Network, ‘Beauty for Ashes’ and ‘Realistic’,  all organizations working with ex-offenders, held a roundtable discussion on ‘ Halfway Houses’ focusing on what happens once an offender is released. […]

Wednesday 15th July 2015 CPLO held a roundtable at the Townhouse in Cape Town on Land Invasions. Three speakers spoke and engaged the guests in a vibrant discussion on land issues. Job Shupululo Amupanda from Namibia spoke on the issues of landlessness in Namibia and their struggles around the affirmative repositioning movement that is growing […]

The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) and the CPLO recently held a roundtable on the National Minimum Wage in Pietermaritzburg. This was a follow up to an earlier roundtable in April on the same topic held in Cape Town, at which Mr Mervyn Abrahams, the director of PACSA, was one of the keynote […]

On the 25th of June 2015, the CPLO held a roundtable on Trade Unions at the Townhouse in Cape Town. When the invitations first came out, there was some disquiet in various trade union circles first because they felt that the trade unions themselves should have a voice in the panel, and also because they […]