Join us for a webinar on ‘THE IMPACT OF THE RECENT VIOLENCE ON MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: Reflecting on the experiences of the mobile community’ with speakers Ms. Tarisai Gonyora, Attorney at Jacobs Gonyora Inc and Fr Rampe Hlobo SJ, Migration Delegate, Jesuit Province of Southern Africa. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/nu56wrrk THE IMPACT OF THE RECENT VIOLENCE […]
Good news on governance issues has been in pretty short supply for some time in our country, so the announcement that the South African Auditor-General has been ranked by the World Bank as one of only two national audit offices that are fully independent and able to carry out their work without undue influence, is […]
Firstly, this reshuffle, like almost everything that President Ramaphosa says and does, was underwhelming – intentionally so. As usual, there was a lot of heated speculation in the media and among commentators about how many changes there would be, and whether some of the big names would fall. We should know by now that Mr […]
Economic Digest 22 SAA Selling Off the Family Junk by Kenny Pasensie
Environment Digest 25 Medupi Is Complete But at What Cost by Lovedonia Mkansi
The plight of mobile people during the various levels of lockdown continues to be complicated and unpredictable. One of the articles listed below speaks of the ‘heightened levels of precarity’ for groups. What is true of the world is also seen in microcosm in South Africa. Refugee Digest 55 by Peter-John Pearson..
In June this year the CPLO published a Briefing Paper (No 523) dealing with financing options for a universal income grant (available at https://tinyurl.com/tse998ef). One of the sources of the BP was a policy brief by the Institute for Economic Justice (https://tinyurl.com/8e9z62vn). The IEJ recently published a supplement to the earlier policy brief which expands […]
The fence was constructed at the beginning of the national lockdown in April 2020, after the President had closed all borders. It was hoped that it would deter migrants from crossing the border into South Africa and thus curb the spread of the Coronavirus. But it was obvious within days that the fence was ineffectual; […]
Family Digest 42: Older Persons and Covid-19 by Lois Law
The term ‘transgenerational trauma’ describes how historical trauma can affect the lives of members of families and communities across multiple generations and impact on their health, well-being, behaviour, self-esteem and genetics.
