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HIGHLIGHTS | FW DE KLERK ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024

The FW de Klerk Foundation’s Annual Conference, in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Foundation, took place at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town on 2 February 2024. Held in commemoration of the 34th anniversary of the speech by FW de Klerk that initiated South Africa’s constitutional transformation process, the theme of this year’s event was “South Africa at 30: Looking Back, Looking Around and Looking Forward”.

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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS SACROSANCT

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.

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2023 FW DE KLERK MEMORIAL LECTURE

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.

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The FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference

The FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference – hosted in conjunction with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung – took place on 31 January 2025. The theme of this year’s conference is: “South Africa’s Position in the World Today”.
 

 Esteemed speakers include Ambassador Andreas Peschke (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany); Magda Wierzycka (CEO of Sygnia); Dr Harlan Cloete (Local Governance and Public Leadership – Research Fellow) and Johan “Rassie” Erasmus (Springbok Coach).