CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
ELECTORAL REFORM CONSULTATION PANEL MAKES PUBLIC PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS, THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION ASKS FOR MORE SINGLE MEMBER CONSTITUENCIES (SMCs)
The Electoral Reform Consultation Panel tabled its three preliminary recommendations today on how South Africa’s present 100% Proportional Representation electoral system for national and provincial elections should be reformed and may impact the 2029 election.
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION ATTENDS ELECTORAL REFORM CONSULTATION PANEL’S CONFERENCE
The FW de Klerk Foundation is attending the Electoral Reform Consultation Panel’s conference on why, how and whether South Africa’s present 100% Proportional Representation electoral system should be reformed, changed, or even replaced.
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION WELCOMES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REFUSAL OF ZUMA’S LEAVE TO APPEAL
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the Constitutional Court’s order, affirming public confidence in the judiciary and protecting journalists from vexatious litigation aimed at intimidating and silencing journalists.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
ARTICLE: LUISTER…
Luister, the video that was recently produced by the Open Stellenbosch (OS) movement, should be viewed by everyone who is interested in the future of our universities and the future of South Africa as a multicultural society. It presents 32 interviews – primarily with black students – regarding their sense of racial exclusion at Stellenbosch University. They complain of subtle – and not so subtle – racism in their interactions with white Afrikaans-speaking students – including accusations of out-and-out racial abuse in student bars and on the internet.
LETTER: RADICAL CLASH WITH THE CONSTITUTION
We welcome reassurances by South African Communist Party (SACP) deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin of his devotion to the Constitution (A distortion to stir the demagogues, Letters, Business Day, August 11.
However, his criticism of Paul Hoffman’s view that “those who subscribe to the values of the national democratic revolution (NDR)” are “anticonstitutionalists” is disingenuous. The NDR is, in fact, profoundly irreconcilable with the Constitution – and particularly with its foundational value of non-racialism (and thus by extension with the foundational values of human dignity and equality as well).
ARTICLE: THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF INVESTMENT BILL
The Department of Trade and Industry has just published the latest version of the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill. The Bill has its origins in the government’s wish to reassure foreign investors who were alarmed by South Africa’s decision three years ago to terminate its Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with a number of European countries. Its purpose is supposedly to provide for “the legislative protection of investors” and the “promotion of investment”.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
EVALUATING THE LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING INCLUSIVE ECONOMY POLICIES AND PROPOSING ALTERNATIVES BY PROF WILLIAN GUMEDE
Prof William Gumede recently presented at the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Conference at the Birchwood Hotel & OR Tambo Conference Centre.
CHALLENGES TO ADDRESS INCOME INEQUALITY: INFRASTRUCTURE, NATIONAL BUDGET ALLOCATIONS, PUBLIC DEBT AND THE G20’S INCLUSIVE ECONOMY PRIORITIES BY DEPUTY MINISTER OF FINANCE ASHOR SARUPEN
Deputy Finance Minister Ashor Sarupen recently presented at the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Conference at the Birchwood Hotel & OR Tambo Conference Centre.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION ADDRESSES G20 INTERFAITH FORUM ON THE CHALLENGES OF INEQUALITY
The FW de Klerk Foundation’s Executive Director Christo van der Rheede addressed the G20 Interfaith Forum on the Challenges of Inequality: How Inequality is Understood, Challenges of Colonial and Political Legacies.
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