CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
STATEMENT: CORRODING NATION-BUILDING THROUGH HATE SPEECH
The FW de Klerk Foundation condemns recent comments by Mr Sandile Memela in an article on the Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader website on Tuesday, 4 March 2014.
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.
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ARTICLE: INVESTMENT 101 FOR POLITICIANS
A large part of President Ramaphosa’s turn-around plans for the South African economy are to attract billions in foreign and local investment, which hopefully will create hundreds (if not millions) of jobs. One sometimes hears other politicians muttering about the “investment boycott” by South African businesses, which are sitting on “billions of rand” and “doing nothing with it”.
But do politicians and government officials know how business people think? Do they know how to break the so-called investment boycott? Here are some insights – call it “Investment 101” for politicians.
STATEMENT: SONA 2019
It is enticing to interpret President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SONA as just another election pitch to the electorate a few months before the general election, now to be held on 8 May. A closer look is, however, warranted, as there are some interesting elements that may indicate a different approach and a stronger emphasis on the need to correct what has gone wrong in the last nine years – call it a glimmer of a post-election Ramaphosa.
ARTICLE: MONEY AND POLITICS
Political parties in South Africa, like in many other parts of the world, are an integral part of the process of democratic pluralism.
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