The 16th South African Psychological Congress was held at the Durban ICC in the first week of August. The warm weather fooled us into thinking that Winter was over! The theme for the 2010 congress was “Probing the Boundaries of South African Psychology” and PsySSA enjoyed record attendance with a jam-packed programme. We were very impressed by the dedication of delegates who managed, after long days at the conference, to still attend the evening presentations until 6:30pm! People’s commitment, both those presenting or attending, and the variety of topics being presented, made it a very worthwhile experience.
Our congratulations and well wishes go to Dr Emmanuel Tlou, the new president of PsySSA as well as the current and new members of the Executive being Mr Umesh Bawa and Prof Anthony Pillay. We hope the year ahead is prosperous and productive and that PsySSA continues to reach new heights. We were relieved to hear that a mediatory approach will be taken with the issues between PsySSA and SIOPSA and we hope that this will be the year that these issues are finally resolved. We are very excited about the pending 2012 International Congress of Psychology in Cape Town and wish you all the best in the preparations.
During the conference we were overwhelmed with interest from our Durban colleagues, requesting that we visit Durban more often. We would like to build a communication database with our Durbanites, so we can coordinate our visits to meet the needs of as many people as possible. There were discussions about JvR hosting a ‘DVD Day’ or running our Ethics Workshop for people in need of CPD points. We will run these events if we have at least 10 people attending. If you would like to keep informed of any upcoming Durban events, please click here and enter your name on our Durban Database. If you have any suggestions as to what you would like JvR to present in Durban please email Jenna@jvrafrica.co.za. This invitation is extended to all regions. Please give us a call to set up a communication database for your area.
Thank you to Durban and the PsySSA team for the warm welcome. The 2011 Congress date has been set for 26-29 July 2011 at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg – we will be there and hope you will be too!
P.S. Congratulations to Mr Shane Wolson, Miss Neo Pule, and Mr Raymond Nettmann who were the winners of our bookdraw!
