CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE 49 AFRIKANER “REFUGEES”: DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN FACTS AND MISINFORMATION
Ismail Joosub clarifies misinformation claims about a racially motivated genocide in South Africa, the history of the “Afrikaner” identity and the legality of being a refugee.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION STATEMENT ON THE TABLING OF BUDGET 3.0
Ismail Joosub and Christo van der Rheede consider the tabled third iteration of the 2025 Budget Speech with great concern, citing a lack of sustainable growth strategies.
2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR PART 2 – KEY BUDGETARY & SOCIAL CHANGES THAT IMPACTED OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Daniela Ellerback outlines the broad societal development that affected South Africans’ constitutional rights and freedoms during 2024 in a series of articles. This second article considers the budgetary and social developments.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
ARTICLE: PRESIDENT ZUMA’S CELEBRATION OF MEDIA FREEDOM DAY
President Zuma is understandably unhappy with the treatment he receives from the media – and particularly from the print media. He is regularly depicted with a shower emerging from his head. Artists paint him with his genitals exposed. He is castigated for corruption and the media continue to hound him over the expenditure of R246 million on his retirement home.
So, it is not surprising that when he went off text during his recent address to mark Media Freedom Day, the President expressed some emotion.
ARTICLE: BACK TO SCHOOL, MR DEPUTY-PRESIDENT?
In his address on 15 October 2015 to the Higher Education Transformation Summit in Durban, Deputy President Ramaphosa made the following statement:
“Though we have made a decisive shift from the fragmented, inefficient and inequitable higher education system of the apartheid era, we still feel its effects. Had the apartheid rulers not been so thorough, so methodical, so malevolent in the denial of education to the black majority, then South Africa would today be on a completely different developmental trajectory. We would be a more equitable nation, a more prosperous nation. We would have an advanced, diversified, more inclusive economy.”
ARTICLE: PLAN B’S CRITICS LIVE IN LA-LA LAND
Almost all South Africans agree that our country is in a crisis. Most government departments are paralysed by incompetence, corruption and a culture of entitlement.
The state of the economy, education, health services, infrastructure and safety are at a low point. The evil triplets of poverty, unemployment and inequality are thriving.
Moreover, a well thought-out plan to “Africanise” society in the name of transformation is being applied relentlessly.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
CHRISTO VAN DER RHEEDE’S CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC RIGHTS REPORT CARD LAUNCH CONCLUDING ADDRESS
Christo van der Rheede’s concluding address at the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Report Card.
CHRISTO VAN DER RHEEDE’S CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC RIGHTS REPORT CARD LAUNCH WELCOME ADDRESS
Christo van der Rheede’s address at the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Report Card.
THE FUTURE OF AFRIKAANS – A VALUE CHAIN PERSPECTIVE
Christo van der Rheede discusses the recent concerning reports indicating that the state of Afrikaans (and multilingualism by extension) is in decline, the different links of the Afrikaans value chain and how these links must be rethought to strengthen the state of Afrikaans.
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