The FW de Klerk Foundation has learned with the greatest sadness of the passing of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi this morning – shortly after the celebration of his 95th birthday.
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, South Africa stood unchanged from its 20th position in the world in terms of gender equality. The report noted that South Africa had “closed more than 70% of the overall gender gap”, but that it would “take 102 years to close the gender gap”.
Saturday 29 July was the 19th anniversary of the Constitutional Court’s judgement in Minister of Finance vs Van Heerden. It is a significant date because it marks a crucial point in the erosion of the foundational value of non-racialism and the unravelling of South Africa’s historic national accord.
On Friday, 14 July, the FW de Klerk Foundation, supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted a conference on the topic of property rights at the Bryanston Country Club in Johannesburg.
“World Youth Skills Day” gives every nation the chance to evaluate how well its young are being prepared for the work environment of tomorrow. However, the basic education system in South Africa is not providing our young with a solid enough basis for future skill development.
A “ground-breaking” settlement reached yesterday between Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi and trade union Solidarity states that “affirmative action shall be applied in a nuanced way… and the economically active population (EAP) statistics will only be one of the many factors that will be taken into account in the compliance analysis of affirmative action in any workplace”.
EARLY DIALOGUES BETWEEN THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION AND THE ANC GOVERNMENT Between 2002 and 2005 the FW de Klerk Foundation organised a number of
On 31 May, Dave Steward, FW de Klerk Chairman, issued a response to Prof Koos Malan’s view on those who supported the constitutional transformation of South Africa. Today, he responds to Prof Malan’s reply to this initial article.
On 7 June, Dave Steward, FW de Klerk Foundation Chairman, delivered a speech to Probus in Somerset West on ‘A Volatile South Africa in a Volatile World’.
