The FW de Klerk Foundation and its Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) join the rest of South Africa – and the continent – in celebrating Africa Day on 25 May.

On Friday, 15 May 2015, the Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) and the School of Public Leadership (SPL) at Stellenbosch University, supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the second in a series of breakfast discussions for 2015.

The recent decision by the North Gauteng High Court (the Court) to grant Robert Stransham-Ford the right to assisted suicide has been met with a range of reactions from different quarters of South African society – from outright condemnation to jubilant welcome. Given the myriad reactions and commentary in this regard, it is important to consider what the Court actually said in handing down its decision.

1. Call for comments regarding the abovementioned matter as per General Notice 325 of 2015 in Government Gazette No 38679 of 7 April 2015, refers.

1. The Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) is a unit of the FW de Klerk Foundation – a non-profit organisation dedicated to upholding the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa , 1996 (the Constitution). To this end, the CFCR seeks to promote the Constitution and the values, rights and principles enshrined in the Constitution; to monitor developments including legislation and policy that may affect the Constitution or those values, rights and principles; to inform people and organisations of their constitutional rights and to assist them in claiming their rights. The CFCR does so in the interests of everyone in South Africa.

The goal of arrest is to bring a suspect before a court.