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TUESDAY 21ST and WEDNESDAY 22nd JULY 2026 | TRAINING WORKSHOP: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN MOBILITY

  Please JOIN CPLO and SIHMA’s upcoming TRAINING WORKSHOP on UNDERSTANDING HUMAN MOBILITY, taking place over 2 days on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd July  2026 from 09h00 – 16h00. See the invitation attached. DATE: 21 -22 July 2026  TIME: 09h00 to 16h00 each day. VENUE: ST JOHN’s RCC – MAITLAND CATHOLIC CHURCH, – Click this link for directions: https://tinyurl.com/4cwmhzxz    […]

Refugee Digest 101 – Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons by Peter-John Pearson

Over the past few weeks, as the South African government has sought to show that it has a handle on the surge in xenophobic activities and issues relating to immigration, it has drawn attention to its record in the deportation of undocumented foreigners, as well as its efforts in repatriation programmes. Refugee Digest 101 – […]

Family Digest 73 –Substance Abuse Among the Youth by Lois Law

Substance abuse among the youth in South Africa is a severe and growing public health crisis, with the country having some of the highest alcohol and drug consumption rates in the Southern African region. The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, cautioned young people against the growing […]

Briefing Paper 654 – Youth Day 50 Years On by Lois Law

The 16th of June 2026 marked 50 years since the Soweto uprising, when thousands of school children took to the streets to protest the imposition of Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction under the apartheid government’s system of Bantu Education, and were met with bullets. The deep-seated cause was the Bantu Education Act of […]

Response – 9th July 2026 – A Step in the Right Direction by Peter-John Pearson

Amidst the ongoing xenophobic actions, the strengthening of exclusionary and populist narratives, and the heartrending realities of repatriation, a recent judgement of the Constitutional Court1 provides a step forward in securing a measure of justice around the vexed question of the exclusion of asylum seekers from accessing documentation necessary for them to stay in the […]

Briefing Paper 653 – What Drives Gender Based Violence? The Case of Lusikisiki by Lois Law

Gender Based Violence (GBV) has been declared a disaster and a pandemic which casts a long shadow of violence and suffering across our society intergenerationally. Gendered norms are not independent of the social, economic and cultural conditions in which they are shaped. Tandi Nzimande, the Chief Executive Officer at the GBVF Response Fund, emphasizes that […]

Briefing Paper 652 – Struggling To Take Back The Narrative by Peter-John Pearson

“Since 2008 – when 62 people, including 21 South Africans, 11 Mozambicans, 5 Zimbabweans and 3 Somalis, were killed – South Africa has been grappling with intermittent but widespread xenophobic harassment and violence against African and Asian foreign nationals living in the country, whether refugees, asylum seekers, or both documented and undocumented migrants”.1 BP 652 […]

Please JOIN US for this PRESENTATION by Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa, Minister of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs, where he will focus on how local government reform could solve our various municipal crises and service delivery problems. He will also explore the future of coalition government.

DATE: THURSDAY 16th JULY 2026

TIME: 17H00 – 19H00

PLACE: Palmyra Room, at the KELVIN GROVE, 144 Campground Road, Newlands, Cape Town

This event is strictly RSVP.  Please click here to RSVP  or Contact Lalage on capetownpressclub@gmail.com or 0828200190 (There is no charge for this event but a donation would be welcomed).

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