CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
THE FULL AND EQUAL ENJOYMENT OF ALL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS: THOUGHTS FROM THE 2024 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CARD
Daniela Ellerbeck considers developments relating to section 9 of the Constitution – the right to equality – as outlined in the FW de Klerk Foundation’s 2024 Human Rights Report, with a specific focus on gender equality in the workplace.
SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: REFLECTIONS FROM THE 2024 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CARD
Daniela Ellerbeck reflects on the FW de Klerk Foundation’s 2024 Human Rights Report Card and recent developments regarding section 24 of the Constitution – the right to an environment that is not harmful to a person’s health or well-being (including future generations).
A VISIT TO LIFE CHOICES – HELPING THE YOUTH TO REACH ITS POTENTIAL
On 23 April 2025, a FW de Klerk Foundation delegation visited Life Choices’ campus to learn more about the youth empowerment programmes that they run.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
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.
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).
SPEECHES
EVENTS
THE BUSINESS OF VALUES: ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE ROAD FORWARD
Ismail Joosub recognises how transformation is often treated as a political checkbox, when it is an ethical imperative, and shares ways that government and the private sector can achieve actual social progress.
THE JUSTICE SYSTEM UNDER SIEGE: WHY THE MADLANGA COMMISSION MUST DELIVER
The FW de Klerk Foundation encourages the Madlanga Commission to keep pace and not linger to give wrongdoers time to regroup, and suggests ways for it to succeed. The rule of law cannot wait.
NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE: MRS. DE KLERK’S CRY FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Elita de Klerk recently sat down with Lelethu Shayi on his podcast “Conversations with Lelethu” to discuss her personal history, President FW de Klerk, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s decision to withdraw from the national dialogue and the current state of South Africa.
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