CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
ACCESS TO JUSTICE IS ERODING – AND SOUTH AFRICANS ARE PAYING THE PRICE
Access to courts is a constitutional right to have disputes decided in a fair public hearing before a court or an independent tribunal. Yet, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s latest Human Rights Report Card warns that while the legal system looks robust on paper, the degree to which South Africans enjoy this right in their daily lives is unmistakably declining.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION WELCOMES US-IRAN CEASEFIRE
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the US-Iran ceasefire as a critical step away from escalating conflict and toward a just, durable and peaceful resolution.
A RIGHT WITHOUT QUALITY: THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Daniela Ellerbeck and Mpone Komako explain why the Foundation’s latest Human Rights Report Card ranks the right to education as the sixth most threatened in South Africa, highlighting the stark contrast between a record matric pass rate and a deepening early-grade reading crisis, alongside persistent infrastructure and transport gaps and widespread teacher shortages.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
ARTICLE: THE GOOD THAT MEN DO…
By Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation Predictably, FW de Klerk’s death – just before 11:00 am on the eleventh day of
ARTICLE: WHAT MIGHT AWAIT US AFTER MAGASHULE’S DEADLINE EXPIRES
By the end of this week the ANC’s wayward secretary-general, Ace Magashule, either has to step aside from his official top-6 position or face immediate suspension. But already there are signs of soft-pedalling should the ANC not follow through, with Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile saying last week that the ANC does not regard the deadline as being D-Day.
ARTICLE: WHAT FREEDOM MEANS
The trouble with political slogans is that they are meaningless. We have seen it with the communist and socialist policies, enacted in the name of the proletariat; the working class, and those who are exploited by the “capitalists”.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
THE REAL COST OF THE IRAN WAR ON SOUTH AFRICA: FROM TEHRAN TO THE TILL
South Africans are already paying for the Iran war through higher fuel, transport and food costs, as global oil shocks are directly transmitted into a vulnerable, import-dependent economy.
THE COST OF PRESIDENTIAL INDECISION
South Africa’s greatest governance failure is no longer a lack of plans, but a lack of consequence, as executive hesitation weakens accountability and erodes trust in the state.
THE COST OF PRESIDENTIAL INDECISION
South Africa’s greatest governance failure is no longer a lack of plans, but a lack of consequence, as executive hesitation weakens accountability and erodes trust in the state.
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