I am very honoured to follow two former Presidents and also Prince Buthelezi, all of them leaders of different political persuasions, all of whom I admire. And I am very pleased to count all three as personal friends.
A quarter of a century has passed since 2 February 1990 when I rose in Parliament to make the announcements that would change South Africa forever.
My speech was not the result of some Damascus Road conversion. Neither was it made because of domestic or international pressure. It was motivated by our realisation that if we wanted there to be a future for South Africa and for all our children, we would have to find real and lasting solutions to the problems that had for so long divided us.
Thank you for the honour to address this seminal event: ‘the 25 Years since 2 February 1990, a Quarter Century of Building and Defending Non-Racial Constitutional Democracy’.
In July last year, FW de Klerk informed the Board of the FW de Klerk Foundation that he had decided to step down from the Chairmanship of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
The FW de Klerk Foundation is delighted to announce that its Board has decided to present the 5th annual FW de Klerk Goodwill Award to Afrika Tikkun.
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the decision of the City of Cape Town to rename Table Bay Boulevard in honour of FW de Klerk.
The FW de Klerk Foundation and its Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) note with concern and strongly condemn acts of violence and other crimes committed against foreign shop owners in Soweto and elsewhere in Gauteng.
In a speech in Vienna on 20 January FW de Klerk addressed the questions of regionalism and linguistic minorities and the role that they are playing in the current crisis in Ukraine.
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the decision by government to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which commits parties to ensuring these rights.
