I am very honoured to be asked to make a few comments at this second memorial lecture of FW de Klerk. I have been asked by Elita to do it, and I was asked by Dave Steward, FW’s close friend and associate, who is the chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation in South Africa to make these remarks.
On Friday, 14 July, the FW de Klerk Foundation, supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted a conference on the topic of property rights at the Bryanston Country Club in Johannesburg.
The FW de Klerk Annual Conference 2023 Highlights The FW de Klerk Foundation and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung recently held their 2023 Annual Conference, ‘Defending the Constitution’ at
Defending the Constitution At the 2023 FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference The FW de Klerk Foundation and Konrad Adenauer Foundation are proud to have
DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION AT THE 2023 FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po96GFeACR8 The FW de Klerk Foundation and Konrad Adenauer Foundation are proud to
On 13 July, the FW de Klerk Foundation, supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), hosted a discussion on: The Rule of Law, The Constitution and South
It is once again a great pleasure for me to address the Cape Town Press Club.
I shall spend a little more time today on the past than on the future ‐ because, at the age of 84, I have much more past than future ‐ and also because the past has become an increasingly contentious issue, not only for the present ‐ but also for the future.
As the tide of imperialism ebbed from Africa, South Africa found itself floundering in the last pool of white rule. We were glaringly out of step with the new international norms of non-discrimination, equality and self-determination that had been articulated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.As the tide of imperialism ebbed from Africa, South Africa found itself floundering in the last pool of white rule. We were glaringly out of step with the new international norms of non-discrimination, equality and self-determination that had been articulated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It is generally acknowledged that the first cracks in the apartheid system appeared in 1976, when the youth of Soweto (near Johannesburg) started to protest against the system that they experienced as unjust. The ANC in exile claimed credit for this uprising. This was met by stern measures by the South African government.
