This roundtable discussion was organised in response to the ongoing debate about land expropriation and the supposed need to amend the Constitution in order to make expropriation without compensation (EWOC) possible. The speakers were: Dr Rick de Satge, an experienced land consultant and activist, and a partner in Phuhlisani Solutions; Mr Wandile Sihlobo, an agricultural […]
This Roundtable was addressed by Ms Valdi van Reenen-Le Roux, Director of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Trauma, Ms Joy Lange, Director of St Anne’s Homes and Ms Lynette Oliver, Social Auxiliary Worker at the New World Foundation. According to the recently released crime statistics, violent crimes against women and children continue […]
The CPLO hosted an event based on the recently released book, “The South African informal sector: Creating jobs, reducing poverty.” The book, edited by Professor Frederick Fourie, a fellow of the University of the Free State, (and the speaker at the event) is the end product of the REDI3x3 project, based at the SA Labour […]
Despite the Constitutional guarantee that all children residing in South Africa have a right to education, many undocumented children are being refused permission to attend schools.
The aim of the stimulus package – which involves reprioritising R50 billion of government expenditure in the current budget from non-performing sectors – is to get South Africa’s economy out of recession and to start reversing the ever-increasing unemployment rate.
As Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee starts to finalise its report on the extensive hearings it conducted around the country on land expropriation without compensation, political and ideological perspectives on the question abound.
The Catholic Church, as a religious body, does not consider itself competent to pronounce on whether or not an amendment to s 25 of the Constitution is necessary in order to facilitate expropriation without compensation.
The death penalty was suspended in SA in February 1990, and finally abolished by the Constitutional Court in 1995. Before its suspension, SA had one of the highest rates of judicial execution in the world,1 with over 3000 people hanged between 1959 and 1989.
During July, August and September six neonates, babies less than one month old, died as a consequence of Klebsiella infection at the Thelle Mogorane Hospital in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng.
Together with the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA), a Roundtable Discussion was held on Violence & Migrant Women. The discussion was particularly geared towards putting a spotlight on the abuse suffered by migrant women as they make their journey to countries of safety. Ms Amy […]
