SIHMA Press Review for October 2024
PRESS REVIEW – SOUTH AFRICA 01 - South Africa’s GNU faces an uphill battle on migration policy Margaret Monyani, Mmabatho Mongae, ISS – Institute for Security Studies in Africa, 10/07/2024 South Africa’s Government of National Unity faces challenges in reconciling competing interests on migration policy. Despite some progressive asylum and migration policies, the country struggles with populist rhetoric...
Webinar - Economic Migration on the African Continent
A webinar about Economic Migration on the African Continent takes place on Tuesday 4th of August 2020 at 15:00 - presenting Scalabrini Centre's new research. Scalabirni centre of Cape Town is hosting a presentation on Africa's approach, through traties and policies, to continental economic migration, with a South African Perspective. The webinar will be by Shannon Guerra, a Yale University Human Rights Scholar who has been working full-time for the last two months on this research. A deeper understanding of South Africa's...
The Cape Town RRO in Comparative Perspective: Accessing Rights and Cities
So far, the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (RRO) has failed to comply with final court orders to accept all new asylum applicants by the end of March 2018 and in response, civil society organizations have staged public protests to put pressure on the Department of Home Affairs to fully open the office. This incident around the RRO in Cape Town is only the most recent example of restricting access to asylum in South African...
