On 9th June 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, hosted a Roundtable discussion on “The State of the Judiciary”. The guest speakers were Chris Oxtoby of UCT’s Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, and Carmel Rickard, veteran legal writer and journalist. The Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional […]

On Wednesday, the 3rd of June 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office held a Round Table on the topic of subsidiarity and local government. Framed around the sub-theme of “can they do it? Subsidiarity and local government capacity” the three speakers addressed questions of the devolution of power to the local level, the current institutional […]

On Friday, 29 May 2015 the CPLO, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, hosted Geordin Hill-Lewis, the DA’s shadow minister for trade and industry, who stepped in when the chief whip of the DA, John Steenhuisen, could not get a flight back to Cape Town in time for the lunch. While Mr Hill-Lewis is […]

The demand for energy continually increases with South Africa’s developing population and economy leading the CPLO to organise a roundtable discussion on the Implications of a South African Nuclear Build on 22 May 2015. The speakers at the occasion were Mr Shane Pereira from Lesedi Nuclear Services; Mr Andrew Kenny, an independent energy consultant; Ms […]

On the morning of 27 May 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), hosted a seminar on new research by the ISS which explores Africa in the global power context and the future capabilities of the continent’s Big Five: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, […]