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.
CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC RIGHTS REPORT CARD 2026 LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
The FW de Klerk Foundation today released its CRL Rights Report Card for 2026, identifying significant developments affecting cultural, religious and linguistic rights while highlighting persistent
THE 2026 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS CONFERENCE PHOTO GALLERY
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, hosted the Constitutional Rights Conference in Rosebank, Johannesburg on the 29th of July 2026. The core
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION CALLS FOR END TO “CULTURE OF IMPUNITY” IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The FW de Klerk Foundation urges government to end local government impunity by enforcing Auditor-General findings, strengthening accountability, stabilising coalitions, and ensuring competent, ethical councillors to
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.
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
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