CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
EXPROPRIATION ACT NOW LAW – THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION CALLS ON MPS TO EXERCISE SECTION 80 OPTION
Daniela Ellerbeck assesses the Expropriation Bill that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law recently.
THE EXPROPRIATION ACT, WHAT NOW?
Daniela Ellerbeck assesses the Expropriation Bill that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law recently.
SOUTH AFRICA’S YOUTH: A PROMISING FUTURE OR A LOOMING CRISIS?
Inspired by the Class of 2024’s recent achievement of a 87,3% National Senior Certificate pass rate, Ismail Joosub dives deeper into the challenges facing South African youth.
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ARTICLE: THE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY BILL
There is something quite touching in the ANC’s belief that it can solve complex economic and social problems simply by promulgating new laws. What is not so endearing is the underlying notion that the state has a right to intrude into the legitimate affairs of private businesses, civil society organisations and political parties in its efforts to impose its ideological precepts throughout society. That has the whiff of totalitarianism‐ however benign the intentions may ostensibly be.
ARTICLE: TURNING UP THE BBBEE AND EMPLOYMENT EQUITY HEAT ON WHITE-OWNED BUSINESSES
The recently published BEE codes and the Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEAB) can be understood only within the context of the ANC’s overarching National Democratic Revolution (NDR) and its ideology of demographic representivity (DR).
According to the ANC’s 2007 Strategy and Tactics document “A critical element of the programme for national emancipation should be the elimination of apartheid property relations.” This would require, inter alia, “the de-racialisation of ownership and control of wealth, including land”; and “equity and affirmative action in the provision of skills and access to positions of management”.
ARTICLE: CONFUSING RACIAL PREJUDICE WITH LANGUAGE RIGHTS
Remarks made by Prof Jonathan Jansen – Rector of the University of the Free State – in the Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture to the English Academy of South Africa on 18 September, have caused a furore in Afrikaans cultural and educational circles. They have been widely interpreted as a call for English-only education and as a claim that “Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa”.
SPEECHES
EVENTS
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE ON THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE PRESIDENT’S TREATMENT OF MINISTERS
The FW de Klerk Foundation notes with concern the President’s inconsistent treatment of his Cabinet members.
FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION PRESS STATEMENT ON ESCALATING CHILD ABUSE CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA
The FW de Klerk Foundation notes with serious concern the recent data confirming over 26 000 cases of child abuse and neglect during 2024-25 and calls for urgent reforms.
DIPLOMACY IS NOT DEAD – THE WORLD HAS JUST FORGOTTEN HOW TO USE IT
Ismail Joosub analyses the recent conflict in the Middle East and questions whether those in leadership positions remember that escalation and “self-defence” attacks are not the only options – diplomacy is not dead.
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