SACBC Workshop on Migration for diocesan coordinators
The South African Catholic Bishop’s Conference organized a training course on Migration for Diocesan Coordinators about Coordinated sustainable response with migrants and refugees in Southern Africa. This event is designed for diocesan coordinators who assist Migrants and Refugees, giving them strategies in how to organize the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees in each Diocese. The training aims to support the development of a network at diocesan metropolitan, national and with the...
Press Review September 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE South Africa apologises to Nigeria after anti-migrant violence news24.com 16 September 2019 South African envoy expressed the country’s “sincerest apologies” to Nigeria on Monday, after a wave of anti-migrant attacks swept through Johannesburg and surrounding cities in recent weeks, fuelling diplomatic tensions. A meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital Abuja was held to convey President Cyrial Ramaphosa’s “sincere apologies about the incident that has recently...
Out of the Shadows: Gender, Migration and Health in SADC
The recent publication by Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey on “Gender, Migration and Health in SADC: a Focus on Women and Girls” is a consistent, fieldwork-based attempt to provide a new, more attentive approach to the interrelation of migration, gender and health issues in South Africa and Zambia. While the number of migrants, especially women and girls, is constantly rising, little attention is being paid to the complex interaction of migratory movements,...
Heritage Day 2019
On the 24th of September South Africa remembers and celebrates its cultural, language and tradition heritage. On this day, all South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions within the great diversity of cultures, religions, beliefs and traditions that make up the country. The “rainbow nation” is a proof that many racial groups, cultures and languages can live together building up the national identity. On the occasion, the President Cyril Ramaphosa...
The African Regional Child Trauma Conference
Re-rooting Africa: Africa’s Routes to preventing & responding to child abuse, violence, & neglect From the 18th to the 21st of August the Cape Town City Hall saw the coming together of government representatives, psychologists, social workers, researchers, practitioners from child and youth development field come together and share best practices and knowledge concerning building effective strategies and implement impactful interventions to counter the ongoing rights violation against children. The Scalabrini Centre...
Magazines’ alert about Afrophobia in South Africa
In the May issue of New African Magazine, in the overview of burning issues in the continent, two articles are dedicated to the topic of Afrophobia in South Africa. The sensitive question ‘Why do Africans hate each other?’ is posed. The incidents and intensity of violence against new immigrants in South Africa seems to be increasing. Sadly, it has become a reality of urban poverty that groups of poor black people attack...
