On 26th August the CPLO and the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a roundtable discussion entitled: ‘Post-Election Analysis: Following The Trends’. We invited two guest speakers, Dr Zwelethu Jolobe – senior lecturer in Political Studies at UCT, and Dr Alain Tschudin – executive director of Good Governance Africa. The discussion was well-attended and a crowd of […]

About 35 people attended this roundtable. Most of them were people from the faith sector working on issues pertaining to refugees, migrants and displaced persons. The aim of the meeting was to get a sense of shared insights on the Green Paper and to achieve a measure of coherence around responses to the Paper. One […]

The CPLO hosted a Roundtable discussion at the Parish Centre next to the CPLO offices, on the subject of ‘Segregated Spaces’ – the persistence of racially-defined residential spaces in the post-Apartheid era. Two speakers led the discussion, the Western-Cape MEC for Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela, and Ndifuna Ukwazi researcher, Gavin Silber. The discussion was quite […]

On Thursday 28 July, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office hosted a Roundtable Discussion on ‘Intergenerational Poverty’. The Roundtable brought together a multiplicity of perspectives. There were five guests speakers, Ms Musa Ngcobo-Mbere, Chief Director for Early Childhood Development from the Department of Social Development, Mr Elroy Paulus, Advocacy Manager of Black Sash, Mr Kevin Roussel, […]

On 19 July 2016 a roundtable on South Africa’s International Obligations: The Domestication of the Paris Agreement was organised by the CPLO in collaboration with Project 90 by 2030 and Youth @ SAIIA (South African Institute for International Affairs) at Wits University, Johannesburg. The speakers for the event were Mr Alex McNamara from National Business Initiative; […]