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...
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...
