CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
SOUTH AFRICA’S EMERGING POLITICAL TRI-BLOC: UNITY, DISCORD AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL WAY FORWARD
Ismail Joosub, Manager of Constitutional Advancement, considers South Africa’s emerging political tri-bloc, the VAT increase and GNU clearing house mechanism’s potential.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION PRESENTS AT JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE TO PAN AFRICAN LEADERS NETWORK FORUM
The FW de Klerk Foundation engaged with the Pan African Leaders Network Forum at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and delivered an address on the National Dialogue process.
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION CALLS FOR COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF SCHOOL PIT TOILETS
The FW de Klerk Foundation encourages Minister Gwarube and her department to finish the task of eliminating pit toilets in schools to ensure that no learner is left behind in accessing safe and dignified sanitation.
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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.
ARTICLE: THE ANC’S NGC DOCUMENTS AND FOREIGN POLICY – SOUTH AFRICA’S NEW ANTI-WESTERN FOREIGN POLICY
The ANC must be congratulated for the care with which it prepares its members for important policy discussions of the kind that will soon be taking place at its 2015 National General Council. The NGC is the most important ANC meeting between National Conferences. It gives the organisation an opportunity to consider progress made with the implementation of policy since the preceding National Conference and to develop proposals for new policies at the next National Conference – which will take place at the end of 2017.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
MPs INVITE PUBLIC COMMENT ON KEY CONSTITUTIONAL BILLS
The FW de Klerk Foundation wishes to alert the South African public to three significant private members’ bills.
GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO STORE HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE AT VAALPUTS
The FW de Klerk Foundation notes with concern the government’s intention to develop a centralised interim facility at Vaalputs (Namaqualand) for the storage of high-level waste.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION
The FW de Klerk Foundation promotes and defends the South African Constitution; works for reconciliation, mutual understanding and national unity; preserves and celebrates the legacy of FW de Klerk; provides information on South Africa’s constitutional transformation; and is the home of the FW de Klerk Archive and Library.
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