The FW de Klerk Foundation promotes the causes for which FW de Klerk
worked when he was President of South Africa.
In George Orwell’s classic, 1984, ‘doublethink’ is the ability to hold two diametrically opposing views on the same topic at the same time. As Orwell put it “to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.” Doublethink appears to have been the mindset of the authors of the Protection of Information Bill that is currently before Parliament. Read more...
Asked what he had to say to Afrikaners who are unhappy about Bafana “not being representative of the country as a whole,” Floyd Shivambu - spokesperson of the ANC Youth League - answered: “They are crazy. Totally.” He asked if anyone has ever seen an “Afrikaner who can be picked to play for Bafana”. Mr Shivambu has a point: teams should be picked on merit and not on race. Read more...
Youth Day on 16 June would have found a large and amorphous proportion of our young people alienated, excluded and discontent. Read more...
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The F W de Klerk Foundation has produced a 104-page book to mark the 20th anniversary of South Africa's transformation to non-racial constitutional democracy. Click on the picture to view...
In commemoration of the 100 years since South Africa became a union on 31 May 1910, the F W de Klerk Foundation, LitNet and Beeld are jointly hosting an article competition from 28 May to 28 August. All entries will be posted on a special LitNet blog and winning articles will be published in Beeld every second week. Please click here for more information on the competition, and here for the competition's link on Facebook.
The Foundation's latest edition of Consensus is now available online. Click on the image to view...
For F W de Klerk's opening remarks at the KidsRights Conference on the Millenium Development Goals and Children, please click here. You can find his speech on What Reconciliation during the past 20 years has taught South Africa, here. For his speech on Food Security, delivered to the Global Forum, Cape Town, please click here...
Click here for F W de Klerk's speech to The Challenges to Leadership and Governance: Creating Value During Turbulant Times Conference on 29 April 2010 in New York.
On 24 March 2010 F W de Klerk addressed the following letter to President Zuma calling on him “to take the lead in moderating the tone of the national debate and in ensuring that it is conducted in a manner that promotes national unity and compliance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution.”
F W de Klerk delivered a speech to Eli Lily on 2 March 2010, entitled Dismounting the Tiger. One of the questions he is invariably asked by international audiences is whether a Damascus conversion led him to initiate the changes that he announced on 2 February 1990. Another recurrent question is why did they not start the transformation initiative earlier. Read more...