About 160 people attended the post SONA discussion on the morning after President Zuma delivered his state of the nation address. The event co-hosted by CPLO, the Jesuit Institute and the Daily Maverick, analysed both the disruptions by opposition political parties as well as the contents of the speech. Some speakers were at pains to […]
A large group of worshippers attended the Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, organised by the CPLO, to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the passage of the Termination of Pregnancy Act on 1st December, 1997. Representatives from several pro-life groups attended as did Ms Cherrylynn Dudley MP from the ACDP. Fr Peter-John Pearson celebrated the Mass […]
The two guest speakers were Ms Hameda Deedat – Acting Executive Director, NALEDI; and Mr Rudi Dicks – Outcomes Facilitator, Department of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. The dialogue focused on government employment programmes, more specifically the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and the Community Works Programme (CWP), and whether or not they are effective as […]
A Roundtable discussion was held in Mthatha, Eastern Cape. It was another in the series looking at the relationship between ordinary people and communities, their leaders and the traditional leaders in particular, and the questions of land and even those around land use, with mining as an example of the point of contention especially when […]
In conjunction with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, hosted a public seminar looking at likely scenarios for the consolidation of democracy on the African continent. The meeting was attended by 61 people, including the Chairperson of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Prof Ursula Männle, who was visiting from Munich. The […]
Fr Stephen Tully from the Denis Hurley Centre and Mr Ashley Potts of the Cape Town Drug Centre spoke at this Roundtable. Both speakers pointed out that we all have the capacity to develop an addiction. However, while some addictions, such as running or knitting, are harmless, others such as alcohol, drugs and gambling will […]
A day of quite a bit of drama in our politics, CPLO held a Roundtable in Johannesburg. It was previously supposed to be at Trinity House, Braamfontein, but due to all the mayhem around that area at that time, it was moved to the Cathedral in Berea. Speaking at the roundtable were the Deputy Minister […]
CPLO hosted a roundtable on the subject of ‘Public Participation in Local Government. The aim of the roundtable was to discuss the ever increasing gap between formalised (invited) space in public participation and informal (uninvited) non-legislative public participation in South Africa. The three main speakers, Ms Roegchanda Pascoe (Manenberg Community Forum); Ms Nontando Ngamlana (Afesis-Corplan); […]
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On 21 September 2016, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office, in collaboration with Heinrich Bӧll Stiftung and the Environmental Monitoring Group, hosted a Roundtable Discussion on ‘The Green Voter’s Guide’. The Roundtable brought together a multiplicity of perspectives. There were three speakers, Mr Stephen Law, Executive Director, Environmental Monitoring Group, Ms Annabel Horn, Task Manager, Department […]
