Ismail Joosub considers the recently published 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index, which ranks South Africa first in Southern Africa and second on the continent for criminality.
Amirah Hassim and Thando Malinga explore the pitfalls of online gambling in South Africa and identify the poor as the worst affected.
The FW de Klerk Foundation releases its Critical Questions on South Africa’s Elections, Coalitions and Local Governance (with a view to 2026) which traces South Africa’s evolving democracy in the lead-up to the 2026 Local Elections.
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”.
Six people were gunned down in Reiger Park after a gangster’s funeral—a tragedy born of a system that let gangsterism thrive. Apartheid’s legacy, inequality and state failure keep communities captive.
