CALL FOR PROMPT PROCESSING OF ERCP CONSOLIDATED REPORT
2026-02-01
Daniela Ellerbeck discusses the Foundation’s urgent request for the processing of ERCP consolidated report on electoral reform ahead of 2029 elections.
Daniela Ellerbeck discusses the Foundation’s urgent request for the processing of ERCP consolidated report on electoral reform ahead of 2029 elections.
In this episode of the Constitution@Work, Ismail Joosub, Thando Malinga, Lusanda Mahkuntsu and Mpone Komako, of the FW de Klerk Foundation, discuss the importance of electoral reform before 2029, the rapidly closing window for meaningful electoral reform, the Foundation’s recent submission regarding the Draft Amendments to the Local Government Municipal Planning and Performance Management Regulations and the Foundation’s urgent request to Honourable Dr Leon Schreiber (MP Minister of Home Affairs), Honourable Angela Thokozile Didiza (Speaker of the National Assembly) and Honourable Mosa Chabane (Chairperson, Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs) for swift action to ensure Parliament fulfils its legal obligations, by ensuring that any necessary legislation can be processed in good time.
South Africa’s foreign policy must be grounded in the Constitution, guided by international law, human rights and principled non-alignment, and applied consistently without fear, favour or ideological double standards.
The FW de Klerk Foundation supports the declaration of a provincial state of disaster, provided it is implemented within constitutional bounds, subject to oversight and focused on restoring the rights to life, safety and dignity of the communities under siege.
The FW de Klerk Foundation is greatly concerned about the recent foreign policy developments in the United States under the Presidency of Donald Trump and the use of the Nobel Peace Prize as political currency.
The FW de Klerk Foundation has submitted formal comments on the Draft Independent Police Investigative Directorate Regulations, 2025, welcoming public consultation, but warning that key provisions threaten IPID’s independence.
Daniela Ellerbeck and Lusanda Mahkuntsu examine the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling about whether the Court should allow South Africa’s surveillance law to keep working after it became invalid, while Parliament finishes fixing it.
The FW de Klerk Foundation releases its “The Constitution and The Cabinet Report” to address whether the national executive is actually giving effect to the promise in the Preamble to “improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person”?
The FW de Klerk Foundation’s submission on the SIU’s Draft National Corruption Risk and Prevention Framework points out the unconstitutionality of South Africa’s current anti-corruption framework and calls for urgent reforms.