The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) and the CPLO recently held a roundtable on the National Minimum Wage in Pietermaritzburg. This was a follow up to an earlier roundtable in April on the same topic held in Cape Town, at which Mr Mervyn Abrahams, the director of PACSA, was one of the keynote […]
On the 25th of June 2015, the CPLO held a roundtable on Trade Unions at the Townhouse in Cape Town. When the invitations first came out, there was some disquiet in various trade union circles first because they felt that the trade unions themselves should have a voice in the panel, and also because they […]
On 9th June 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, hosted a Roundtable discussion on “The State of the Judiciary”. The guest speakers were Chris Oxtoby of UCT’s Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, and Carmel Rickard, veteran legal writer and journalist. The Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional […]
On Wednesday, the 3rd of June 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office held a Round Table on the topic of subsidiarity and local government. Framed around the sub-theme of “can they do it? Subsidiarity and local government capacity” the three speakers addressed questions of the devolution of power to the local level, the current institutional […]
On Friday, 29 May 2015 the CPLO, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, hosted Geordin Hill-Lewis, the DA’s shadow minister for trade and industry, who stepped in when the chief whip of the DA, John Steenhuisen, could not get a flight back to Cape Town in time for the lunch. While Mr Hill-Lewis is […]
The demand for energy continually increases with South Africa’s developing population and economy leading the CPLO to organise a roundtable discussion on the Implications of a South African Nuclear Build on 22 May 2015. The speakers at the occasion were Mr Shane Pereira from Lesedi Nuclear Services; Mr Andrew Kenny, an independent energy consultant; Ms […]
On the morning of 27 May 2015, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), hosted a seminar on new research by the ISS which explores Africa in the global power context and the future capabilities of the continent’s Big Five: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, […]
Visit of the Fordham and South African Students from the Fordham UBUNTU programme at the University of Pretoria in Tshwane. On the 1st of April 2015, CPLO hosted a group of ten American and four South African students, who are part of the Fordham university UBUNTU programme at the University of Pretoria, accompanied by Prof […]
Recently the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office in collaboration with the Western Cape Department of Social Development; the National Institute for Crime Prevention and Re‐integration of Offenders (NICRO) and the Prison Care and Support Network (PCSN) held a roundtable discussion on Prison and the Family which sought to place the spotlight on the families of the […]
Dr Nic Spaull, researcher at the University of Stellenbosch and Ms Carla Pereira, Chief Operations Officer at JET Education Services, were the main speakers at a recently held roundtable on the Annual National Assessments (ANAs). This roundtable was a collaboration with the Catholic Institute of Education. Both Dr Spaull and Ms Pereira admitted that the […]
