The FW de Klerk Foundation extends its heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2025 for their outstanding achievement in the National Senior Certificate examinations and calls on stakeholders to sustain this momentum by strengthening learning foundations and protecting proven support programmes.
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the Western Cape High Court’s judgment directing the Western Cape Education Department to take firm steps to ensure every learner has access to schooling in 2026.
Lusanda Mahkuntsu considers the Constitutional Court’s decision on whether the tie-breaking mechanism in the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 is constitutional.
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.
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.
Amirah Hassim and Thando Malinga explore the pitfalls of online gambling in South Africa and identify the poor as the worst affected.
Ismail Joosub reviews the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption and how South Africa’s high-level, complex corruption cases are viewed by the public, as well as handled by the IDAC.
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 has submitted formal comments on the Special Investigating Unit’s Draft National Corruption Risk and Prevention Framework – highlighting the unconstitutionality of South Africa’s current corruption framework.
