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I returned this weekend from an extended visit to South Africa, where Atlantic has long been engaged in supporting organisations and leaders working on human rights, reconciliation and health issues. Ordinarily in a column, I try to drill down on some particular aspect of our…

Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson '74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche '76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…

Original Source The University of the Witwatersrand’s Forced Migration Studies Programme is an Atlantic grantee. WILSON JOHWA, Political Correspondent SA is to drop the visa requirement for Zimbabwean passport holders while also granting them special residency permits allowing them to work in the country. Home Affairs Minister…

JOHANNESBURG - Some lie awkwardly splayed on the stairs while others sleep in a neat row outside a church in Johannesburg from where Zimbabwean refugees will soon find themselves having to relocate again. The Methodist Church, in the city centre, has long been a popular…

It is time for Americans to bring together two powerful forces that are often disconnected - the desire to serve and the necessity to take social action to change systems that often give rise to the need for these services, said Gara LaMarche, President and…

Original Source By Francis Hweshe The Western Cape government has acknowledged the fears expressed by some refugees over their reintegration, but says it willcontinue to work towards returning them to the communities from which they were displaced. During the xenophobic attacks in May, about 20,000…

Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…

Original Source by Ernest Mabuza AMID warnings of a looming humanitarian crisis in Gauteng, SA's main economic hub, at least 12 people were killed and hundreds injured in apparent xenophobic attacks that spread to townships and parts of Johannesburg at the weekend. The violence, which…

The Washington Post's WONKblog interviewed Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager and chief executive of Health Care for America Now (HCAN), an Atlantic grantee, on its central role in passing health care reform in the United States. Kirsch told the Post it was the "bold" decision by…

This statement was published in the Aug 24th edition of Sowetan Live. We are organisations that campaign for social justice. The success of our work is dependent on respect for the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. The right to free expression and freedom of…