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Description
Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) are great laboratories to study accretion onto compact objects and accretion-related outflows under a wide range of diverse physical conditions, such as variations in mass transfer rate from the companion star, variations in magnetic field strength of the accreting white dwarf and the presence or (partial) absence of an accretion disc. In this talk I will give an overview of the impact of observations by MeerKAT and other SKA pathfinders - in the context of multi-wavelength campaigns - on the understanding of accretion and accretion-related outflow in Cataclysmic Variables. Of particular interest is the emerging population of closely related non-accreting binaries including white dwarf pulsars and (white dwarf) long period transients.