Response: World Refugee Day 2021 By Peter-John Pearson
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Response: Leaving Refugees in Limbo by Fr Peter-John Pearson
- Posted: May 4, 2021
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2021 Responses
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Response: The State of the Nation Address by Adv Mike Pothier
- Posted: February 12, 2021
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2021 Responses
There was a lot more good news in President Ramaphosa’s address last night than many people had perhaps expected. Some of it was about relatively small things – the success of ‘masterplans’ in the poultry and sugar industries, for example; massive growth in citrus exports; big investments by motor manufacturers – but these small things […]
Response: Vaccine for All in South Africa By Fr Peter-John Pearson
- Posted: February 12, 2021
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2021 Responses
On 1st February, in an address to the nation, President Ramaphosa gave an update on the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. This included the 1 million doses that had arrived on that day from India, with a further 500 000 due in late February, and a further 2 million due in March from the global COVAX […]
Response: Full Circle? by Mike Pothier
- Posted: February 5, 2021
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2021 Responses
“When thinking about the fall of any dictatorship, one should have no illusions that the whole system comes to an end like a bad dream with that fall. [I]ts psychological and social results live on for years, and even survive in the form of subconsciously continued behavior. In such circumstances history begins to turn in […]
Response: 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children
- Posted: December 3, 2020
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2020 / Front Page Publications / Responses
Give justice to the weak … maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:3-4 The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign (16 Days Campaign) is a global United Nations campaign which takes […]
Response: 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children
- Posted: December 3, 2020
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2020 / Front Page Publications / Responses
Give justice to the weak … maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:3-4 The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign (16 Days Campaign) is a global United Nations campaign which takes […]
Response: A Cautious Opening of Borders
- Posted: October 8, 2020
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2020 / Front Page Publications / Responses
A Cautious Opening of Borders On 30th September both the Ministers of International Relations and Co-operation, and of Home Affairs issued statements explaining the re-opening of South Africa’s borders and the protocols for those entering South Africa. From the two speeches, three issues emerge that have direct bearing on the various categories of people on […]
Response: COVID-19 and People on the Move.
- Posted: July 10, 2020
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2020 / Responses
Towards the end of June 2020, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr Antonio Guterres, published a short but very insightful policy brief on the coincidence of two major forces presently shaping our reality, namely the COVID-19 pandemic and the peak in the numbers of people on the move; and on the fallout from […]
Response : Corruption Thriving
- Posted: July 2, 2020
- By: cplo_adm
- Category: 2020 / Responses
Two days ago, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo delivered an unexpected lecture. It came at the end of testimony by Popo Molefe, former chair of the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), before Judge Zondo’s Commission of Enquiry into State Capture. Month after month, the Judge has been hearing evidence of […]