CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
STATEMENT: MANDELA DAY – 67 MINUTES
In keeping with this year’s theme of: “Take action; inspire change; make every day a Mandela Day”, staff of the FW de Klerk Foundation will be donating 67 minutes of their time to a community project in Cloetesville, Stellenbosch.
The ATKV AbbAsorg project cares for more than 35 disadvantaged and vulnerable children - aged between three and six years - from the local community. The project provides the children with nutritious meals and promotes school-readiness by means of an educational pre-school programme.
STATEMENT BY FW DE KLERK ON THE OCCASION OF THE 95TH BIRTHDAY OF NELSON MANDELA
Nelson Mandela is approaching the end of the long walk that he began 95 years ago in Qunu. On his birthday we should commemorate the remarkable contributionthat he has made to South Africa and to all its people.
Today should be a time for quiet and respectful contemplation – and not for unseemly squabbling over the ownership of Mr Mandela’s heritage.
STATEMENT: FW DE KLERK TO RETURN TO CAPE TOWN
Mr FW de Klerk and his wife Elita have decided to suspend their current working visit and holiday in Europe because of Mr Mandela’s medical condition. They will arrive back in Cape Town tomorrow. Their thoughts are with the Mandela family during this difficult time and they join in their prayers for an improvement in Mr Mandela’s health.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
STATEMENT: MAKE RACISM HARDER
Media and social media have been abuzz over the last few weeks calling out Adam Catzavelous racist references to black people in his weather report from his Greek island holiday.
ARTICLE: WHAT ARE THE ANC’S OPTIONS FOR CHANGING SECTION 25?
Now that we know the ANC will support an amendment of section 25 to enable expropriation without compensation (EWC), the question is, what potential changes can be proposed? There are views that together, the ANC and the EFF will get a comfortable two-thirds majority, and be able to change section 25 “as they like”. There are others who believe that any change to section 25 will require not only a two-thirds majority but because property rights are so central to economic prosperity and the achievement of other individual rights such as dignity, any change to section 25 will require a 75% majority. Where lies the truth?
ARTICLE: MEANINGS OF THE ZONDO COMMISSION
When Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and his fellow commissioners commence work on 20 August 2018 in Parktown, Johannesburg, all eyes will be trained on them.
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
- Equality
- Non-racialism
- Gender Rights
- The Constitution
- The Rule of Law
- Multiparty Democracy
- Personal Rights
- Cultural, Religious and Language Rights
- Freedom of Expression and Political Rights
- Social and Economic Rights
- Property Rights
- Education
- Access To The Courts, Information And Fair Adminstration
