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 […]

In collaboration with Project 90 by 2030 we hosted a roundtable discussion where Brenda Martin, CEO at SAWEA (South African Wind Energy Association); Lebogang Mulaisi, Policy Coordinator at COSATU & Richard Halsey, Researcher at Project 90 by 2030 dialogued on A Just Energy Transition in South Africa: Sources, Ownership and Related Matters. There are several […]

This Roundtable was co-hosted by CPLO and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, in collaboration with Corruption Watch (CW) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). There were four speakers. Mr David Lewis, the Executive Director of Corruption Watch, introduced the topic, and explained that South Africa has been suffering from poor quality leadership at the head […]

The question of public housing in South Africa has been a difficult and conflicted one with many South Africans living in shacks and overcrowded spaces. In the midst of this, the situation of migrants is found to be even more precarious and difficult. Speakers who addressed this discussion were: Ms Tendai Bhiza (Office Administrator, People […]

Speakers of this roundtable were Dr Carin Runciman, Senior Researcher at the University of Johannesburg‘s Centre for Change, and Mr Seana Nkhahle, Executive Manager at the South African Local Government Association. Dr Runciman unpacked the research she and her colleagues at the Centre for Change have been doing on the nature of political protests, focussing […]

The CPLO ended the month of May by hosting a roundtable discussion on the South African ocean economy. The speakers were Mr Kishan Sankar from the Aquaculture and Economic Development Office in the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries); Associate Professor Moenieba Isaacs from the Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies: PLAAS; and Mr […]