According to the World Health Organisation, “cholera transmission is closely linked to inadequate access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Typical at-risk areas include peri-urban slums, and camps for internally displaced persons or refugees, where minimum requirements of clean water and sanitation are not been met.”1 Democracy Digest 9 – Cholera – A Symptom of Poor Governance […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Act 4 of 2022 into law in April of this year. The new law includes changes to the legislation governing workplace transformation, as well as stricter compliance measures for designated employers. Section 15A of the new law introduces sectoral numerical targets with the purpose of ensuring the equitable representation of […]
On 25th May this year, the Department of Home Affairs approached the Constitutional Court to request a ‘revival of the order’ that the Court had issued in 2017 and which expired in June 2019. In 2017 the court ordered the DHA to amend aspects of the Immigration Act dealing, firstly, with detention of undocumented foreigners beyond the maximum […]
Recent experience with coalition governance in some of South Africa’s largest cities has been anything but encouraging. Johannesburg, for example, is now on its fifth mayor since the municipal elections of November 2021. Tshwane (Pretoria), Ekhuruleni and Nelson Mandela Bay (Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth) have also had multiple mayors over the same period. BP 567 – Coalition Governance – Are We Ready by Mike […]
The title of this Briefing Paper comes from a brochure issued by the International Catholic Migration Commission, in which the importance of documentation for people on the move is emphasised. It raises the important issues of protection, access to support, and ultimately – theologically speaking – the opportunity to live a fully human life. BP 566 – Not Just a Piece of […]
With the expiration date for the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits drawing steadily closer, and a silence from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) about the possibility of a further extension, as well as the continued wait for the judgement in the High Court case on the same issue, there has been, amongst ZEP holders, a heightened anxiety, restiveness and […]
The 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released last week, found that 81 per cent of South African Grade 4 pupils (10 – 11 years old) could not read for meaning. The Minister of Education, Angie Motshekga, noted that a lot of learning time had been lost over the last few years due to COVID-19. However, […]
Over the past few weeks, countries which have the power to influence international narratives, policies and practices around issues relating to mobile people have robustly engaged in activities that have emphasised the politics of exclusion. We should be under no illusion that these trends will have an adverse influence on the security and wellbeing of this community. They […]
Date: Thursday 25th May 2023 Time: 19h00 This is a Twitter Space event so please use this link https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvKpmRlVpdGE to attend the discussion. PES Reflections
‘Unprecedented’ is an over-used word, especially in political discourse, but for a government to institute a judicial commission of enquiry into facts which are – or ought to be – uniquely within the knowledge of that government, must be close to unprecedented. Response – The Lady R – Subterfuge or Just Asleep at the Wheel by Mike […]
