New to Hotel Yeoville

The Hotel Yeoville Project has just opened to the public in the brand new public library on Raleigh Street.  Hotel Yeoville is not a hotel!  It’s a community website and an interactive art project available for the use of residents of Yeoville and Bellevue. Adding a new frequency to the trans-continental whispers upstairs at the new  library, Hotel Yeoville is a ground-breaking public art project which, by way of freshly designed digital interfaces, keys into the diversity of immigrant and South African experiences that make the legendary suburb of Yeoville such a hot melting pot.  

Come into the library at the specific hours mentioned below, and check it out!  Raphael Bope, Godfrey Tshis Talabulu, and Brittany Wheeler are there to show you around and guide you through how to use it.

Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have just released an extraordinary resource: a beautifully designed and user friendly, up-to-date survival guide for South Africa's refugee community.

African Diaspora Forum (ADF)

The ADF is an umbrella organisation for people from the Diaspora who are resident in South Africa. The African Diaspora Forum is a non profit organisation open to all willing individuals and organisations sharing the objectives of the Forum. Its originality consists in the union of a number of organisations representing African migrant communities living in South Africa. So far 21 African countries are represented in the Forum: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.  The organisation works for an integrated society, free of discrimination or any kind of xenophobia. It promotes tolerance, builds relationships between South Africans and Africans of the Diaspora and fosters a pride in being African.

Before seeking employment, it is important to understand the South African Basic Conditions of Employment Act. Everyone in South Africa has rights when it comes to employment, and it's important to know what they are. The South African government has the full legislation related to worker's rights on their website. To read the full version online, click here.