Press Review August 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE Foreigners protest at Joburg Court, want arrested migrants released from custody iol.co.za 12 August 2019 Foreign nationals protested outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, calling for the release of others migrants who were arrested following raids in the CBD. The foreigners were arrested after being unable to produce documents proving that they were in the country legally and allegations that they were being being...
Technical Workshop to Review the AU Training Curriculum on Migration Governance
From 17 to 19 July 2019, the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, SIHMA, was invited to the workshop organized by the African Union in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, to define the training programme for governments and public administration officials of different countries managing the complex phenomenon of migration. Other stakeholders at the workshop were the most important study centres and universities on the African continent, with expertise in migration, especially...
Workshop on Advocacy and Development with Misean Cara
An interesting Workshop on Effective Development and Advocacy for System Strengthening took place at the Schoenstatt Retreat and Conference Centre, Constantia, Cape Town on 13th August 2019, organised by Misean Cara. Misean Cara is an international and Irish faith-based missionary movement working with some of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities in developing countries. As part of their strategy to enable sharing of best practice, networking and collaboration, they invited different stakeholders...
SIHMA Annual report 2018
SIHMA has now published his Annual Report 2018, full of information on the organisation and the reports concerning the activities of the year 2018-19. You can find here the Message from the Executive Director and from the Board member and CPLO Director, Peter John Pearson. Dear colleagues and friends of our Institute, The release of an official report is always a precious opportunity to look at the many things done during this...
Eight Weeks with Scalabrini: Adventures in SIHMA and BASP
The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town is bustling. Every day, dozens upon dozens of refugees and migrants enter the brightly colored building for the many services that Scalabrini offers, services that I didn’t realize I would get a chance to be a part of. Before coming to South Africa for an eight-week job, an internship-support organization spoke with me about what kind of internship I wanted, found me one with Scalabrini Institute...
Press Review July 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE Fewer than 1 in 6 asylum seekers in SA granted refugee status news24.com 9 July 2019 Not even one out of six asylum seekers seeking refuge in South Africa are granted refugee status. Over the past 10 years, the Department of Home Affairs processed 633 395 applications, only granting 99 624 of these applications. This means 533 771 people, mostly coming from war-torn and severely distressed countries, had...
