On 11 August 2023, after serving just over an hour in the Estcourt Prison, former president Jacob Zuma was granted a “special remission” and walked out of prison a free man thanks to the transparent intervention of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
On 26 May 2023, the Western Cape government introduced the Western Cape Provincial Powers Bill, which seeks to grant provincial and local authorities more autonomous political power. The Bill aims to empower capable provincial and local governments to address issues where the national government has failed to deliver services to Western Cape citizens.
Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation, reviews Anthea Jeffery’s recently published book, ‘Countdown to Socialism’ – a meticulous study of the ANC/SACP’s National Democratic Revolution (NDR), an ideology that lies at the heart of the dysfunctionality and crises that beset South Africa.
Last week, the FW de Klerk Foundation made a submission to the Department of Employment and Labour on the Draft Employment Equity Regulations 2023. The Foundation believes that the Regulations, along with the EEA Act and the practice of demographic representivity (DR), constitute one of the most serious threats to our constitutional order since 1994.
In his recent articles on the Constitution, Prof Koos Malan expresses the view that those of us who supported the constitutional transformation of South Africa between 1989 and 1996 were motivated by some kind of liberal-religious delusion. Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation, responds.
Mrs Elita de Klerk and the Board of the FW de Klerk Foundation would like to convey their deepest condolences to the family and friends of
The FW de Klerk Foundation strongly supports Cabinet’s adoption of a national framework towards the implementation of professionalisation of the public sector, which would move
THE BOIPATONG MASSACRE On 17 June 2020 the EFF issued a statement to mark the 28th anniversary of the Boipatong massacre. It stated that the
Yesterday, the National Assembly adopted the Expropriation Bill and – with that – took a giant leap in undermining the rights of property owners in
