FW DE KLERK MEMORIAL LECTURE 2023 INTERVIEWS
2023-11-24
Tributes to FW de Klerk at this year’s FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture at the Global Leadership Foundation’s annual memorial dinner.
Tributes to FW de Klerk at this year’s FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture at the Global Leadership Foundation’s annual memorial dinner.
The chronic inefficiency plaguing the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the persistent delays in delivering judgments by our courts raises serious constitutional concerns, jeopardising the very essence of justice in our democratic society.
On 15 November 2023, Parliament’s second house of Parliament – the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) – passed the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill despite countless submissions from various stakeholders opposing the Bill’s clear curtailment of the constitutionally-entrenched right to freedom of expression. The Bill will now go to the National Assembly for concurrence.
The FW de Klerk Foundation discusses the pro-Palestine group’s disruption of a peace prayer gathering on November 12 at Sea Point promenade was unjustified and a clear violation of the prayer group’s constitutional rights to free speech and peaceful demonstration.
The FW de Klerk Foundation supports the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in its campaign to mobilise South Africans to register for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections this weekend, 18 and 19 November.
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.
The second FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture was delivered last night by Professor Chester Crocker at the annual memorial dinner of the Global Leadership Foundation near Washington DC.
The second FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture was delivered last night by Professor Chester Crocker at the annual memorial dinner of the Global Leadership Foundation near Washington DC.
In September 2023, South Africa witnessed a watershed moment as the National State Enterprises Bill made its debut in the National Assembly. This milestone bore the promise of revitalising not only the country’s governance arena but, more importantly, its beleaguered state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, this Bill’s initial allure as a harbinger of reform is, but a mirage.