In honour of Human Rights Day, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Programme team will present the Foundation’s annual Human Rights Report Card which examines the extent to which the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights were practically enjoyed by all South Africans over the past year.
Ismail Joosub outlines what the President’s declaration of Gender-based Violence as a national disaster legally means, as well as the pitfalls if the government doesn’t fulfil its strengthened legal obligation.
On 20 November, Cobus van Deventer and Irene de Bod, from the National Institute of the Deaf, visited the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Office to report back on how the Foundation’s financial support has been utilised for the betterment of deaf South Africans.
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, hosted the Fourth FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture on 11 November 2025.
Watch the 4th FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture.
On 11 November 2025, the FW de Klerk Foundation hosted the 4th FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture, in which Jonathan Granoff was the guest speaker.
Watch the 4th FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture highlight video.
Jonathan Granoff’s address at the Fourth FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture on the topic “FW de Klerk’s Commitment to Justice: Transformation, Constitutionalism and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons”.
The MK Party’s MP, Mzwanele Manyi, has tabled a bill in Parliament seeking to nationalise all land and make the state its sole custodian. The FW de Klerk Foundation made a formal legal submission and urges the public to do the same.
