The question of dealing with food security, malnutrition, poverty, and even unemployment, has received suggestions ranging from social grants to Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).

South Africa is at the start of an energy transition away from fossil fuels.

The question of housing, among the other challenges that migrants face, is an issue that highlights how often we discuss challenges faced by poor South Africans, while ignoring the complexities that make the situation of migrants that much more complicated. For example, migrants face huge difficulties with documentation. Without proper identification, or proof of age […]

This Roundtable Discussion was co-hosted by CPLO and HSF, in collaboration with the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA). There were two speakers, Ms Mary de Haas and Mr Lukhona Mnguni, both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ms de Haas, a violence monitor in KZN, introduced the topic by giving a historical perspective of […]

We hosted a Roundtable Discussion exploring the many complex issues relating to a Decent Standard of Living (DSL). Isobel Frye of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) was the main speaker. One in four people in South Africa are food poor with the majority living on less than R550 a month. The reality, […]

There were two speakers: Mr Lawson Naidoo, Executive Director of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC); and Dr Makhosi Khoza, former ANC Member of Parliament and chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Appointment of the Public Protector. Mr Naidoo noted that the Public Protector was not primarily a […]

We hosted a Roundtable Discussion in Joburg on the question of Migrants and Social Housing. There have been various issues in the media especially concerning the situation of migrants in the inner city of Johannesburg and the various unfortunate comments made by politicians about migrants criminally taking over housing spaces. The speaker for the Roundtable, […]

We held a Roundtable Discussion asking the question ‘What about the Boy Child’? While in the past Roundtable Discussions on ‘Gender Based Violence’, ‘Positive Discipline’ and the ‘Vulnerability of the Girl Child’ have been held. However, there is a tendency to overlook the boy child. Real transformation of gender relations requires an equal focus on […]

The 2019 national elections may produce no outright winners, forcing parties to form a coalition government. The intention of this roundtable discussion was to look at the coalition municipal governments and assess how these are working and if they can be used as a gauge for 2019. Dr Ivor Sarakinsky (below left), Director of Wits […]