CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
STATEMENT ON EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT DRAFT REGULATIONS
The FW de Klerk Foundation has learned with shock of the new Regulations published on 28 February 2014 by the Department of Labour in terms of the Employment Equity Act (as amended).
ARTICLE: PRESIDENT ZUMA RETURNS TO SECOND PHASE PLAY
South Africans would do well to take note of President Zuma’s statement in Parliament yesterday regarding the ANC’s plans to “intensify the implementation of affirmative action policies in order to deepen reconciliation and social cohesion in our country.” The President did not grab these ideas from the air – they are a core element of the second phase of the ANC’s National Democratic Revolution.
ARTICLE: INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY 2014: SPEAKING A LANGUAGE WE ALL UNDERSTAND
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) – on 21 February each year – celebrates language diversity, variety and multilingualism throughout the world.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
PRESENTATION – PROF HAROON BHORAT ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019
The Challenge of Economic Growth in South Africa: Structural Transformation and Job Creation
Outline
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A Long-Run Growth Trap in South Africa
• Economic Growth and Structural Transformation
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The Advent of Deindustrialisation: Global and South African
Evidence
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Manufacturing and Low-Wage Employment: A Viable Growth Strategy?
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Whither Economic Growth: Building Economic Complexity
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Looking to the Future:
• The Fourth Industrial Revolution• South Africa’s Labour Force
WELCOMING REMARKS – HENNING SUHR ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019
Dear Mr President, FW De Klerk, Dear Mr Steward, Distinguished panelists, Dr Botha and Prof Bhorat, Dear Members of Parliament, the diplomatic corps, representatives from state institutions and from civil-society, Dear Theuns Eloff and all the great staff members of the FW de Klerk Foundation, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends
SPEECH: THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
I would like to welcome you to this – the FW de Klerk Foundation’s – 10th annual conference. We instituted the conferences in 2010 to mark the 20th anniversary of the commencement of our great national transformation process.
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