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FW de Klerk 2014 Goodwill Award for Patrice Motsepe
FW De Klerk 2014 Goodwill Award goes to Patrice Motsepe The FW de Klerk Foundation is delighted to announce that the recipient of the 4th annual
ARTICLE: IS THE JSC SERVING THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE CONSTITUTION AND AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY?
The way the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) of South Africa presently recommends candidates for judicial appointment to the President has been the subject of controversy and widespread criticism and raises concerns that it attaches excessive consideration to race and not enough to whether candidates are fit, proper and appropriately qualified.
ARTICLE: THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, SOUTH AFRICA AND NELSON MANDELA
The sorrow and adulation that the world has expressed following the recent death of Nelson Mandela are a worthy tribute to his greatness. Last Monday the British parliament added its voice to the global chorus. It was appropriate – because it was the same parliament that set the course for South Africa’s future history when it created the Union of South Africa only 103 years ago. In so doing it set the stage on which Nelson Mandela – who was born only eight years later – would play out his extraordinary career.
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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.
STATEMENT: FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON “ADDRESSING INEQUALITY”
The FW de Klerk Foundation will dedicate its 2019 Annual Conference on Friday, 1 February, to one of the most critical challenges confronting the nation, inequality. Election years, with their promises and platitudes, have not addressed this grave issue. The Foundation will reflect on this matter but also go further and ask the vital question, “What is to be done?”
Inequality in South Africa is stubbornly high and has over the last 24 years grown increasingly persistent. A 2018 World Bank report aptly sums up the triple challenge confronting the country including, “high poverty, high inequality and high unemployment”. While there is no quick fix to these challenges, the fact of the matter is that if we as a country do not address this deep-rooted problem effectively, we will not be a peaceful, prosperous and harmonious society. In addition, striving for equality is one of the basic mandates of our Constitution.
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