CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
DRAFT NATIONAL CORRUPTION RISK AND PREVENTION FRAMEWORK OPENS FOR COMMENT – CLOSES NEXT WEEK
Today, the Special Investigating Unit opened the Draft National Corruption Risk and Prevention Framework for public comment. This important Framework deserves more than a week for effective public participation.
YOUR RIGHT TO LIVE OUT YOUR BELIEFS IN PUBLIC
The FW de Klerk Foundation outlines how religious rights are protected by the Constitution and how diversity strengthens our nation, as outlined in its 2025 Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Report Card.
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION WELCOMES THIS DEVELOPMENT TO END THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes this development to end the conflict in the Middle East.
PODCASTS
THE CONSTITUTION@WORK PRESENTS: THE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CARD TOP 10 THREATS
16 March 2023 @ 12:00 am –
In this episode of The Constitution@Work, Tyla Dallas FW de Klerk Foundation Manager of Constitutional Programmes is joined by Dave Steward FW de Klerk Foundation Chairperson and the Foundation’s team of interns – Wilmore Tendai Chisiiwa, Ismail Joosub and Rosa Sommer – to discuss its latest annual Human Rights Report Card for 2022 which will be released on Human Rights Day…
THE CONSTITUTION@WORK PRESENTS: DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION
30 January 2023 @ 12:00 pm –
This episode of The Constitution@Work focuses on the upcoming FW de Klerk Foundation annual conference on Thursday, 2 February which will explore the important role that journalists, Chapter Nine Institutions, NGOs and the Courts have played – and will continue to play- in ensuring that South Africa remains a constitutional democracy….
THE CONSTITUTION@WORK PRESENTS: SPECIAL DAY OF RECONCILIATION EPISODE
14 December 2022 @ 12:00 pm –
In this special Reconciliation Day episode of The Constitution@Work, FW de Klerk Foundation Vice-Chair Elita de Klerk and Manager of Constitutional Programmes Tyla Dallas are joined by two of our previous Goodwill award recipients- Danny Diliberto, (founder of Ladles of Love) and Pieter-Dirk Uys (South African performer…
SUBMISSIONS
THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION SUBMITS DETAILED CONCERNS ON THE BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL TO THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT
The FW de Klerk Foundation has submitted comprehensive and detailed concerns regarding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, highlighting critical constitutional considerations.
BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL SUBMISSION TO THE WCPP
The FW de Klerk Foundation’s submission regarding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
PARLY’S SECOND HOUSE PASSES THE EXPROPRIATION BILL
On Tuesday, 19 March 2024, Parliament’s second house, the National Council of Provinces, passed a version of the Expropriation Bill which allows for expropriation without compensation.
SPEECHES
SOUTH AFRICA ON THE EVE OF THE ANC’S POLOKWANE CONFERENCE
SPEECH OF F W DE KLERK AARDKLOP 25 SEPTEMBER 2007 Harvard, 7 November 2007 AN END OR A BEGINNING: LEADERSHIP EN ROUTE TO
MEDIA ATTACKS ON FW DE KLERK
STATEMENT BY F W DE KLERK ON RECENT PRESS REPORTS CAPE TOWN, 26 JULY 2007 Last Friday a report appeared in the Mail &
DIE PLEK VAN AFRIKAANS IN SUID-AFRIKA: 2007
DIE PLEK VAN AFRIKAANS IN SUID-AFRIKA: 2007 TOESPRAAK OP 23 FEBRUARIE DEUR MNR F W DE KLERK BY DIE NASIONALE FORUM VIR AFRIKAANS SE TWEEDE
EVENTS
JONATHAN GRANOFF’S ADDRESS AT THE FOURTH FW DE KLERK MEMORIAL LECTURE
Jonathan Granoff’s address at the Fourth FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture on the topic “FW de Klerk’s Commitment to Justice: Transformation, Constitutionalism and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons”.
END THE SIEGE: RECLAIMING COMMUNITIES HELD HOSTAGE BY GANGS
Six people were gunned down in Reiger Park after a gangster’s funeral—a tragedy born of a system that let gangsterism thrive. Apartheid’s legacy, inequality and state failure keep communities captive.
UNSPENT EDUCATION FUNDS BETRAY CHILDREN’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Ismail Joosub and Christo van der Rheede consider the implications of the Department of Basic Education’s 2024/25 Annual Report which recognised seven provincial education departments’ collective failure to spend R 150 million of its budget.
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