CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
STATEMENT: MORTGAGING THE FUTURE – MINISTER GIGABA’S DEBUT
There is a rich irony when Finance Minister Gigaba quotes at length from one of Africa’s foremost poets and novelists, Ben Okri, followed a few lines later in his speech with a quote from Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen.
ARTICLE: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN – POVERTY AND CORRUPTION IN SOUTH AFRICA
There is considerable irony when the United Nations’ (UN) International Day for the Eradication of Poverty falls on the day that the President of the country plays fast and loose with the country’s people and resources, driven by unguarded self-interest and self-enrichment.
ARTICLE: MAMABOLO’S HAND ON THE TILLER
The recent appointment of Mr Sy Mamabolo as Chief Electoral Officer at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is key to ensuring that this important Chapter 9 institution continues to fulfil its constitutional mandate to manage free and fair elections at all levels of government, in a competent and fair manner.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
ZOOM DISCUSSION: PEPUDA 2021 Amendment Bill – How concerned should South Africans be?
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently published the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (4 of 2000 and known as PEPUDA) amendment Bill for public comment.
AUDIO: PEPUDA Amendment Bill 2021 – How concerned should South Africans be?
Listen to FW de Klerk Foundation CEO Adv Jacques du Preez talk about the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act Amendment Bill.
ARTICLE: THREE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE EWC CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILL
The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable.
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