The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the decision by government to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which commits parties to ensuring these rights.
At the ANC’s glittering Gala Dinner in Cape Town last Friday President Zuma said that Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival in the Cape was the beginning of all South Africa’s problems.
According to “Rapport” of 30 November 2014, the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, has threatened to withdraw the registration of the private university, Akademia, if its language of tuition remains exclusively Afrikaans.
I am sorry that I am unable to attend this year’s World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in person – but long-standing engagements have made it impossible for me to be in Rome at this time of the year.
[Excerpt from Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, delivered in Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 1993]
“…In our quest for peace we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
A year has now passed since the death of Nelson Mandela, the first president of our non-racial constitutional democracy.
Since March this year more than 5 000 people have died of Ebola.
The FW de Klerk Foundation and the Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) unreservedly condemn the recently reported assault on Delia Adonis, a cleaner working at a shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town.
The FW de Klerk Foundation has learned that international students may be prevented from studying at South African universities by the Department of Home Affairs’ new immigration policies.
