CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
NEWS RELEASE REGARDING GNU MEETING WITH THE WHITE HOUSE
Christo van der Rheede welcomes President Ramaphosa’s visit to Washington and hopes that the representatives of both South Africa and the United States put the needs of their countrymen before trivial domestic matters.
ASSESSING THE RIGHT TO DIGNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS AND PERSISTENT CHALLENGES
Shanees Nkandu examines the constitutional right to dignity and the recent developments affecting the full enjoyment of this right, as outlined in the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Human Rights Report Card 2024.
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA RETURNS RICA AMENDMENT BILL TO PARLIAMENT OVER CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS
Shanees Nkandu discusses President Ramaphosa’s recent decision to send the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act Amendment Bill back to the National Assembly, citing potential constitutional infringements and a lack of adequate oversight mechanisms.
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
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”.
ARTICLE: IDEOLOGIES AND “PRAGMATISM WITHOUT BOUNDARIES”
There has recently been a revealing polemical exchange between Joel Netshitenzhe, the former chief ideologist of the National Democratic Revolution, and the SACP’s chief ideologist, Jeremy Cronin.
In a critique of the SACP’s 2014 “Going to the Root” discussion document, Netshitenzhe endorsed the need for the radical implementation of the second phase of the NDR. However, he made the following points:
ARTICLE: THE STATE OF PARLIAMENT
The FW de Klerk Foundation shares the concerns of participants in a recent private round-table discussion – mentioned in Business Day – on the functioning of Parliament, which was hosted by the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC).
The theatrical disruption of Parliament by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is unacceptable – however necessary it may be to hold the President accountable over the Nkandla issue.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION WELCOMES SPECIAL TRIBUNAL RULING ON UNLAWFUL R167,9 MILLION TENDER AWARD
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the Special Tribunal’s ruling declaring unlawful and invalid Mogalakwena Local Municipality’s award of a R167,9 million tender to Easyway.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER ESCALATING VIOLENT LAWLESSNESS
South Africa is reeling from brazen violence that has reached into our courts, municipalities and offices. The FW de Klerk Foundation urges President Ramaphosa, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Police to lead a whole-of-state offensive against assassination markets, extortion rackets and gang capture.
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION PRESS STATEMENT CAUTIONING AGAINST PRAISE FOR ZIMBABWE’S LAND REFORM
The FW de Klerk Foundation notes with deep concern the recent remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa in which he appeared to praise Zimbabwe’s land redistribution policies.
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