In his five-point plan to combat illegal migration and anti-foreigner mobilisation, announced in June this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa included the proposal to work with other African countries, increasing ‘cooperation and engagement with regional partners and continental neighbours to address the broader structural drivers and regional realities of migration’. What could this mean in practice, and how does it relate to the other four points of the plan?
Speaker
- Prof. Alan Hirsch, Senior Research Fellow at the New South Institute and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town
Prof. Hirsch has been a member of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Economic Advisory Council since 2019 and is a member of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s G20 Africa Expert Panel. He managed economic policy in the South African Presidency from 2002 to 2012, has represented South African presidents in G20 negotiations and co-chaired the G20 Development Working Group. After an early career in academia and a longer career in the South African government, ending as Deputy Director-General of the Presidency, Hirsch established and directed the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town between 2012 and 2020.
He was also Research Director for Zambia at the International Growth Centre from 2010 to 2015. Since 2019, he has conducted and led research, mostly on migration governance reform in Africa.
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In his five-point plan to combat illegal migration and anti-foreigner mobilisation, announced in June this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa included the proposal to work with other African countries, increasing ‘cooperation and engagement with regional partners and continental neighbours to address the broader structural drivers and regional realities of migration’. What could this mean in practice, and how does it relate to the other four points of the plan?
