In honour of Human Rights Day, the FW de Klerk Foundation's Constitutional Rights Programme team will present the Foundation's annual Human Rights Report Card.

The FW de Klerk Foundation takes great pleasure in hosting our Annual Conference to commemorate the 36th Anniversary of FW de Klerk’s speech that opened the way to South Africa’s constitutional transformation.

On 30 January, Christina Teichmann, Deputy Chair of the FW de Klerk Foundation, and the Foundation's Legacy Manager, Brenda Steyn, visited the Taipei Liaison Office on invitation of Mrs Lily Chen, Director General of the Taipei Liaison Office.

In this episode of The Constitution@Work, Daniela Ellerbeck and Ismail Joosub, of the FW de Klerk Foundation, are joined by Mohau Lecheko and Mmusi Aloysias Maimane, leader of Build One South Africa, to discuss electoral reform.

The Fourth FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture was delivered on 11 November 2025, by Mr Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, in Cape Town at The Capital, 15 on Orange Hotel.

In this episode of The Constitution@Work, Daniela Ellerbeck, Ismail Joosub and Thando Malinga of the FW de Klerk Foundation are joined by Adv Glynnis Breytenbach (a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance) and Adv Paul Hofmann (Director of Accountability Now) to discuss corruption, the state’s constitutional duty to take all reasonable measures to counter corruption and organised crime, as well as Adv Breytenbach’s recently introduced Private Member’s Bill entitled “The Constitution’s 21st Amendment Bill”, amongst others.

Ismail Joosub and Amirah Hassim, members of the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Advancement Programme, are joined by Advice Chuma (Founder of the Swakoteka Foundation) to discuss student activism, how young voices are treated in local government, how to get the youth involved in our democracy, the difficulties facing Johannesburg and the reality of coalitions at the local government level.

In this episode of The Constitution@Work, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Programme team, Daniela Ellerbeck and Lusanda Mahkuntsu, are joined by Tony Leon (former leader of the Democratic Alliance). Together, they explore the 14-day period the Constitution allows for the formation of a national government and what the events leading up to the establishment of South Africa’s 2024 Government of National Unity reveal about the Constitution, the country’s political culture, and the future of coalition governance.

In this episode of The Constitution@Work, Daniela Ellerbeck, Ismail Joosub and Christo van der Rheede discuss the intersection of law, policy and inclusive economic growth in South Africa with the Foundation’s current interns, Amirah Hassim and Sonia Twongyeirwe.

In honour of Heritage Month, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Programme team launched the Foundation’s annual Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Report Card.