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
SPEECH: STATE CAPTURE SINCE 1994 – AND THE ROLE THAT THE CONSTITUTION HAS PLAYED IN PROTECTING OUR DEMOCRACY
Twenty-four years ago when we established our new non-racial democracy we hoped that South Africa would settle down to the humdrum process of becoming a normal society. We hoped that we would be less ‘interesting’ than we had been during the preceding 30 years.
We were wrong. South Africa was never destined to be a boring country.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
Every year, the FW de Klerk Foundation hosts a conference on 2 February in Cape Town, to coincide with the announcement in Parliament in 1990
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021
The FW de Klerk Foundation annually hosts a conference on 2 February in Cape Town to coincide with the announcement in Parliament in 1990 of
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