DIALOGUE AND CO-OPERATION
CONFERENCES, DIALOGUES AND ROUNDTABLES
Since its inception, the FW de Klerk Foundation has promoted and participated in dialogue and discussions relating to constitutional issues.
It has done so through its annual conferences; its conferences on national issues and the many roundtable meetings
that it has hosted over the years.
THE FOURTH FW DE KLERK MEMORIAL LECTURE
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, hosted the Fourth FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture on 11 November 2025.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC RIGHTS REPORT CARD LAUNCH
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, launched its 2025 Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Report Card (“CRL Report”)
ACHIEVING AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY CONFERENCE COMPENDIUM
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, hosted its Constitutional Rights Conference on “Achieving an Inclusive Economy”. This is a compendium of the
CONFERENCE: “PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR ALL SOUTH AFRICANS – AND THE ROLE THAT LAND REFORM CAN PLAY IN EXPANDING PROPERTY RIGHTS”
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted a conference in Johannesburg on: “PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR ALL SOUTH AFRICANS – AND THE
SPEECH: MEDIATING THE IMPOSSIBLE
The peaceful resolution of South Africa’s long-standing racial imbroglio 24 years ago seemed to show that even the most intractable disputes could be solved peacefully by compromise and negotiation. Our experience gave new hope to the world that it might be possible to mediate the impossible and that other long-standing disputes might also be resolved through peaceful negotiations.
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
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.
ISSUES
- Equality
- Non-Racialism
- Gender Rights
- The Constitution
- The Rule of Law
- Multiparty Democracy
- National Unity
- Personal Rights
- Cultural and Language Rights
- Religion and Ethics
- Freedom of Expression and Political Rights
- Social and Economic Rights
- Property Rights
- Education
- Access to the Courts, Information and Fair Administration