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ARTICLE: DOES MR LESUFI DESERVE A PASS?

2019-06-24

The Gauteng MEC for Education, Andrek Panyaza Lesufi, is an interesting man. A large part of the mainly black population think the world of him. He is a MEC who is “hands-on”, and is seen and heard wherever there is trouble in the Gauteng school system. He is regularly in the media and holds a press conference once a week – usually on a Sunday afternoon at his home. He was even mentioned as a possible successor to the current Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga. Another part of mostly the white (and Afrikaans) population is of the opinion that he is waging war on Afrikaans as a language of instruction in schools – and in addition to that, harbours anti-white sentiments.

SPEECH: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

2019-06-12

President Walesa, Ms Tibaijuka, Minister Mohammed Al Mutawa, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

I welcome this opportunity to share my views on the importance of peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance with this distinguished audience. I would also like to commend the Oslo Centre and the Foundation for Dialogue and Peace for the role that they have played in organising this event.

ARTICLE: DID RACIAL IDENTITY HOLD SWAY IN THE 2019 ELECTIONS?

2019-05-16

The 8 May 2019 elections were held at a time and in a climate that saw most South Africans collectively concerned about the economy, corruption and State capture.

ARTICLE: MORE PARTIES, BETTER DEMOCRACY?

2019-04-09

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) recently announced that 48 parties will contest the national elections on 8 May. That is more than the 29 that took part in 2014 – a 65% increase! Will greater participation, however, give South Africa a better democracy?

The astonishing fact is that according to the IEC’s website, there are 312 parties registered at national level, and 294 at provincial level. The number of parties at national level shrank to 48 due to two factors. The first is the IEC’s own selection process, which led to 118 parties being de-registered and 29 applications being rejected. The second factor is that some parties (117) did not pay the registration fee needed to participate in the election. These costs are quite high – R200 000 to participate at national level, and then R45 000 per province. A party that wishes to participate at national level and in all the provinces will therefore have to pay R605 000. A smaller party could find it challenging to raise such a sum.

SPEECH: HOW DO YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER?

2019-04-07

It is a tragedy that lasted 100 days and saw at least one million lives lost. Men, women and children were slaughtered and crushed in a hate-filled frenzy. Ethnic identity (reflected on identity cards and appearance) was the basis of death by guns, machetes and farming implements by neighbour on neighbour, youth militias and gendarmerie. Moderate Hutus and Twas were collateral damage in a hate-filled campaign to rid the country of Tutsis.

ARTICLE: THE SAHRC’S LATEST FINDING ON JULIUS MALEMA

2019-03-13

It is with the greatest concern that the FW de Klerk Foundation notes the 8 March 2019 finding of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in which it dismisses the Foundation’s complaint of November 2016 against Julius Malema. The Foundation lodged a complaint against Malema regarding a statement that he had made outside the Newcastle Magistrate Court, in which he had said, inter alia, that “…White people found peaceful Africans here. They killed them. They slaughtered them like animals. We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now. What we are calling for is the peaceful occupation of land and we don’t owe anyone an apology for that.”

SPEECH: SOUTH AFRICA’S TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

2018-10-12

It is a great pleasure for me to address you today on the topic of South Africa’s transition to democracy. This is now my ninth visit to Taiwan and with each visit I have admired the manner in which your country has progressively consolidated and deepened your own democratic system.

SPEECH: MANAGING TRANSFORMATION – THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2018-06-14

It is a great pleasure for me to be able to address this conference on the topic of transformation management.

You executives in the energy sector have to wrestle constantly with the challenges presented by the rapidly changing environment in which you operate.

SPEECH: THE ACCOMMODATION OF CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A CORE CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FOR SOUTH AFRICA, FOR EUROPE AND FOR THE WORLD

2018-03-24

Everywhere people are on the move.

One of the inescapable implications of globalisation is an enormous increase in the interaction between people from different backgrounds, cultures, languages and religions. The management of the resulting cultural, language and religious diversity will be one of this century’s greatest challenges.

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ARTICLE: DOES MR LESUFI DESERVE A PASS?

SPEECH: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

ARTICLE: DID RACIAL IDENTITY HOLD SWAY IN THE 2019 ELECTIONS?

ARTICLE: MORE PARTIES, BETTER DEMOCRACY?

SPEECH: HOW DO YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER?

ARTICLE: THE SAHRC’S LATEST FINDING ON JULIUS MALEMA

SPEECH: SOUTH AFRICA’S TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

SPEECH: MANAGING TRANSFORMATION – THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

SPEECH: THE ACCOMMODATION OF CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A CORE CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FOR SOUTH AFRICA, FOR EUROPE AND FOR THE WORLD

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