The FW de Klerk Foundation promotes the causes for which FW de Klerk
worked when he was President of South Africa.
THE 2012 FW DE KLERK GOODWILL AWARD
The F W de Klerk Foundation Board has decided to award the 2012 F W de Klerk Goodwill
Award to Pieter-Dirk Uys for his exemplary contribution to the promotion of goodwill in South Africa. The Board chose Pieter-Dirk Uys for the award because of his life-long career of making South Africans laugh at the absurdities of racism and his exemplary work in alerting South Africans - and in particular schoolchildren - to the threat of HIV/AIDS.
In celebration of the 22nd Anniversary of FW de Klerk’s speech that initiated South Africa’s constitutional transformation process the FW de Klerk Foundation, in co-operation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, will be hosting a Conference on "Paths to Progress" on Thursday, 2 February 2012, at the Protea President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town. Please phone Pat at 021 930 3622, or e-mail her at pat@fwdeklerk.org by 16 January if you would like to attend. Seating is limited. Read more here...
The F W de Klerk Foundation wishes to condemn in the strongest terms the message recently broadcast on Twitter by Kemo Immanuel Waters calling for white South Africans to be killed. The Foundation will lodge a formal complaint regarding Waters' statement with the Human Rights Commission. Read more here...
The F W de Klerk Foundation wishes to congratulate the ANC on its 100th anniversary. At the same time, the ANC acknowledges that much remains to be done in the areas of education; job creation; the combating of crime and corruption; the improvement of service delivery and the promotion of equality. The Foundation wishes the ANC well in its efforts to address these challenges and in its work to promote the values, rights and vision in our Constitution. Read more here...
The F W de Klerk Foundation recommends that the 2011 SA Languages Bill be withdrawn in its entirety because it doesn't provide a rational framework for language policy as required by the Constitution. Read more here...
The F W de Klerk Foundation would like to pay tribute to the late Václav Havel, the first President of the Czech Republic , who died yesterday. Václav Havel was one of the foremost founders of the new Europe, based on freedom and democratic values and retained a keen interest in the promotion of human and political rights after he left office. F W de Klerk deeply admired President Havel and regularly participated in the Forum 2000 discussions that he initiated. Read more here...
The recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment setting aside Adv Menzi Simelane’s appointment as National Director of Public Prosecutions illustrates the key role that our courts are playing in upholding core provisions of the Constitution. At the same time, the SCA’s Simelane judgment will undoubtedly deepen the growing rift between the executive and the judiciary. Read more here...
The print media is again under fire for its failure to 'transform' and to ‘diversify’. Parliament has been scrutinizing the country's leading media groups and has found them wanting. What about freedom of expression? Read more here...
FW De Klerk says the balance between the positive and negative in South Africa is beginning to oscillate more erratically. We are approaching a pivotal point in our history where all South Africans of goodwill would have to rally around the Constitution. Read more here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation wishes to appoint a constitutional law expert as soon as possible to, as Director, head its Centre for Constitutional Rights. Applicants should have a passionate committment to upholding the Constitution and extensive knowledge and understanding of the Constitution and the process that led to its adoption. Applications, supported by a brief resumé, should be submitted to info@fwdeklerk.org by no later than 30 November 2011.
The F W de Klerk Foundation regrets to announce that Adv Nichola de Havilland, who has served as Director of our Centre for Constitutional Rights since January 2009, will be leaving the Centre at the end of January 2012 to pursue her personal interests. Adv De Havilland will remain a member of the CFCR’s Panel of Advisors and will from time to time continue to assist the Centre with its activities.
In a speech to London solicitors F W de Klerk said that the new South Africa was founded on the premise that no-one - no majority, no minority, no individual - should ever again be able to unjustly deprive anyone of any fundamental right. “The foundation of our historic national accord was that henceforth relationships between the state and citizens would never again be governed by the arbitrary decisions of this or that group or party - but by the carefully crafted and nationally agreed precepts of the Constitution.” Read more here...
Few documents provide a more disheartening illustration of the degree to which our national discourse has been re-racialised than the recently published Green Paper on Land Reform. The Green Paper’s ideological fountainhead is the ANC’s National Democratic Revolution - which, believe it or not, still views South Africa through the prism of a continuing liberation struggle against whites. Read more here...
FW de Klerk speech in Germany: Global strategic attention will be increasingly focused on Africa - because of its enormous mineral resources; because of its untapped agricultural potential in an increasingly hungry world; and because of the potential of its people. Read more here...
The F W de Klerk Foundation has been approached by a number of employees of the Department of Correctional Services in the Western Cape with regard to the imposition of national demographics on employment practices in the Western Cape. Read more here...
The national census, which began this week, is much more than a simple counting of heads. In many respects it is like a ten-yearly check-up to see how we are faring as a nation. In South Africa, the national census plays an even more important role than it does in most other countries. Read more here...
In a statement on 16 September, F W de Klerk expressed the view that a visa should be granted to the Dalai Lama because South Africa is an open society that respects the freedom of religion. The F W de Klerk Foundation is accordingly deeply concerned over the debacle that has now arisen over the Dalai Lama’s visa application.Read more here...
Although the reaction to the judgment from the ANC, the ANCYL and other factions on the Hate Speech-judgment was predictable, comments that ANC NEC member Jessie Duarte made last week during an E-TV interview warrant constitutional scrutiny. Read more here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of Minister Blade Nzimande’s recent comments regarding the Foundation and other organizations that are seeking to uphold the constitutional rights of South African citizens. Read more here...
In his article of 15 August Prof Pierre de Vos ascribes attitudes to the Foundation that it does not hold and that cannot be deduced from its response to Archbishop Tutu’s recent call for white South Africans to pay a reparations wealth tax. We do not oppose the initiative because we wish to defend the “economic interests of white people”, as De Vos claims, but because we believe that that such a race-based reparations tax would undermine the principle of non-racialism and foundational rights to equality and human dignity. Read more here...
Our article on 'The opportunity to draw up the ideal SA Languages Act', was published on Maroela Media on 19 August 2011. The submission of a new South African Languages Bill to Parliament creates an opportunity for everyone who wants to promote multilingualism, to make suggestions on how language policy should be managed in future. Read our article here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation wishes to voice its concern about the proposed 2011 South African Languages Bill, which will become the new South African Languages Act if accepted by Parliament. Read more here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of the comments made by Archbishop Tutu at a book launch in Stellenbosch on 11 August 2011. Read our statement here...
FW de Klerk delivered the fifth Mathews Phosa Memorial Lecture on 11 August at the Afrikaans Language Museum, in which he called for an effective South African Language Act that will make the language rights in the Constitution a reality. Read more here...
According to Eleanor Roosevelt universal human rights begin…”in small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. … Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” For an article by Jennifer Lee, an intern at the Foundation, on 'Finding Justice for Women in Small Places', please click here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of Mr Malema’s remarks regarding former President De Klerk. They are so silly that they hardly merit comment.
However, Malema’s bombastic outbursts on a wide range of other topics from nationalisation to Botswana - and the inexplicable failure of the ANC leadership to call him to account - cannot be ignored.
Malema and the ANCYL have become a serious embarrassment to South Africa. They are beginning to undermine international confidence in our economy; they are damaging relations with one of the most progressive and democratic states in Africa; and they are eroding the inter-community reconciliation that President Mandela worked so hard to promote.
The behaviour of Malema and his colleagues must presumably also to an acute embarrassment to many principled and disciplined members of the ANC. They must be painfully aware that Malema’s self-aggrandisement, his irresponsible outbursts and his undisguised lack of respect for the ANC leadership have no place in the traditions that the ANC has developed over the past 100 years.ISSUED BY THE F W DE KLERK FOUNDATION
CAPE TOWN, 6 AUGUST 2011
In his article titled 'How stable is South Africa?", Prof Lawrence Schlemmer provides an excellent overview of the challenges confronting South Africa. It was published with the assistance of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (FNF). The views presented in the article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FNF.
Lawrence Schlemmer is former Vice President of the HSRC and professor, now an executive director of a research company, MarkData. Download the article here.
"In South Africa, a critically important factor in determining our prospects for continuing sustainable development will be the political, social and economic environment during the coming years. My topic today is accordingly the constitutional requirements for sustainable development in South Africa."
On 26 July 2011, FW de Klerk delivered a speech to the 2011 Insurance Conference in Sun City, titled The Constitutional Requirements for Sustainable Development. Download the speech here.
Should one really worry about Ms Samantha Vice’s anguished and introspective ruminations in her article on being white and about enjoying ‘whitely’ privileges, recently published in the Journal for Social Philosophy? Unfortunately, one must. Even Max du Preez, hardly known as a defender of ‘whiteliness’, was jolted into responding. The trouble is that ideas - even from the deepest recesses of provincial academia - can have consequences. Read more here on why Ms Vice’s views must be challenged.
Former President FW de Klerk addressed the London Solicitors Litigation Association annual dinner in London on 25 October 2011, describing the importance of the rule of law and constitutions in rapidly changing societies. Read more here
STATEMENT BY FW DE KLERK ON THE DEATH OF GEN MAGNUS MALAN
I have learned with sorrow of the death of Gen Magnus Malan.
Gen Malan played a leading role, as Chief of the South African Defence Force and as Minister of Defence, in developing the SADF into the most formidable military force in Africa. Under his leadership the SADF played an indispensible role in defending South Africa and our region until the collapse of Soviet communism facilitated the commencement of the negotiations that led to the establishment of our non-racial constitutional democracy. From an early stage Gen Malan and the SADF accepted that there could never be a military solution to the constitutional challenges facing South Africa and worked diligently for the establishment of conditions that would make a peaceful and negotiated settlement possible.
I should like to extend my sincere condolences to Gen Malan’s wife, family, friends and to all his former SADF comrades.
ISSUED BY THE F W DE KLERK FOUNDATION
CAPE TOWN, 18 JULY 2011
In his keynote address on 8 July to the Access to Justice Conference, President Zuma (or rather the legal advisers who wrote his speech) raised concerns that the Executive was once again threatening to encroach on the functions of the judiciary. The headlines in the Weekend Argus ominously proclaimed: “ZUMA WARNS JUDGES”. Are we heading for a showdown between the Executive and the Courts? Read more here...
The critical comments on refugees that were recently made by ANC-LP Maggie Maunye, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee of Domestic Affairs, require further analysis, even though she and the ANC have since apologised for them. What is the legal position of refugees in South Africa? Read more here...
The FW de Klerk Foundation is deeply concerned by reports that appeared in the media on 6 July that Adv Thuli Madonsela, the Public Protector, was about to be arrested on fraud charges. Read more here...
On the 3rd of March 2010 the Centre for Constitutional Rights filed a formal complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission regarding the violation of various human righst of Mr Chumani Maxwele by members of the Presidential Special Protection Unit. The violations occurred when he was unlawfully arrested and detained on the 10th of February last year for allegedly pointing his middle finger at a convoy of police vehicles which were purportedly transporting the President. Against this background the Centre welcomes the findings in the Commission's report that all the listed human rights had in fact been violated by the Police. Read our press release on the matter here. Download the South African Human Rights Commission's report on the matter here.
The FW de Klerk Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Adv Jacques du Preez to our team as Operational Officer. Read more here...
STATEMENT BY F W DE KLERK ON THE DEATH OF PROF KADER ASMAL:
I have learned with great sorrow of the death of Prof Kader Asmal. He was a life-long campaigner for freedom. He was one of our new democracy's founding fathers - and was present at its birth. He lent colour, humour and intelligence to our political debate. Almost to the moment of his death he remained a fearless champion of the democratic values that underlie our Constitution. South Africa will miss him. I should like to convey my and Elita's sincere condolences - and those of the F W de Klerk Foundation - to his family and friends.
ISSUED BY THE F W DE KLERK FOUNDATION, 22 JUNE 2011.
At the end of May, the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans decided to excise from the definition of military veterans all those who had served as national servicemen in the SADF and who had served in the old Union Defence Force. As a result, some 600 000 former servicemen who fought in the border wars, World War II and the Korean War would no longer be eligible for veteran benefits. Read more here...
Youth Day on 16 June provides us with an opportunity to consider the condition of our young people and the challenges that confront them. By any measure, the plight of millions of our children is unacceptable. Read more here on what our communities can do to address this.
The country is balanced between success and failure and the fulcrum on which South Africa’s future will pivot is our Constitution. If the forces of history come down on the side of constitutional values we can all look forward to a positive future. However, if the balance tips in the other direction, the consequences for all South Africans could be very dire. Read more here.
On 6 May, at an ANC rally in Galeshewe, near Kimberly, Julius Malema ratcheted up the ANC Youth League’s anti-white rhetoric a few more notches. He said, among other things, that “we must take the (whites’) land without paying. Once we agree that they stole our land, we can agree they are criminals and must be treated as such.” Read more here.
Seventeen years ago, on 27 April 1994, South Africans stood in meandering queues throughout the country waiting patiently to vote in our first one-man, one-vote election. What have the intervening years brought? Read more here.
On 2 February 2011, the FW de Klerk Foundation held a conference, in conjunction with the Konrad Adenuaer Stiftung, on The Things that Unite Us as South Africans. This post conference publication, The Things that Unite Us, contains the speeches delivered by the speakers during the conference. Download the publication here.
An article by F W de Klerk on the relevance of South Africa’s constitutional transformation for the unfolding situation in North Africa and the Middle East was published in the prestigious American publication, Foreign Policy. Read the article here...
All those who believe in constitutional democracy and the rule of law should rejoice in the decision by a 5 to 4 majority of the Constitutional Court that the 2008 act that abolished the Directorate of Special Operations (the Scorpions) was invalid. Read more here...
While President Zuma is crusading against unemployment, his Minister of Labour has introduced legislation that will, according to the employment index company Adcorp, lead to the loss of more than a million jobs. Read more on President Zuma's Job Creation Drive and the Labour Law Amendment Bills here...
21 February 2011 is International Mother Language Day. Of the world’s extinct languages, seven used to be spoken in South Africa, namely !Gan!ne, Cape Khoekhoe, |’Auni, |Xam, ||Ku||’e, ||Kx’au and ||Xeqwi. Today, we have three critically endangered languages - Korana (six speakers in 2008), N|uu (eight speakers in 2008) and Xiri (87 speakers in 2000). Most South Africans have never heard of these languages and little or nothing has been done by government to preserve or promote them. However, the biggest threat to our indigenous languages does not come from government but from the indifference of the speakers of these languages. Read more here... 
During the annual gala dinner on 2 February 2011, the Foundation launched its second Coffee Table Book, entitled The Things That Unite Us. The books are a limited edition - only a 100 were published. A few copies are still available at a suggested minimum donation of R500 each. Read more here... 
The Foundation hosted a very successful Gala Dinner on 2 February 2011, in Celebration of the 21st Anniversary of FW de Klerk's Speech that Initiated South Africa's Constitutional Transformation Process. The first annual FW de Klerk Goodwill Award was presented to Dr Danny Jordaan during the event, amongst other things. Read more on the Gala Dinner, here. Click here for photos taken during the event.
During the Gala Dinner on 2 February 2011, FW de Klerk presented the first annual FW de Klerk Goodwill Award to Dr Danny Jordaan. Click here for the press statement released when Dr Jordaan was announced as the first recipient, and read more on the Award here.
On 2 February the Foundation hosted, together with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Conference entitled 'The Things that Unite Us' at the Vineyard Hotel. The conference was a huge success with inspiring speeches delivered by Archbishop Makgoba, Kevin Chaplin, Morne du Plessis, Temba Nolutshungu and FW de Klerk. The Foundation is in the process of compiling a post-conference publication, which will be available soon. Read more on the event here, download the speeches here and view the photos taken during the event here.
The F W de Klerk Foundation would like to announce that the first annual F W de Klerk Goodwill Award will be presented to Dr Danny Jordaan for promoting national unity and goodwill between South Africans through his exemplary contribution to the success of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Read more here...
On 27 January 2011, F W de Klerk addressed the Anne Frank Trust in London to mark Holocaust Day. The subject of his talk was ‘It is never too late to change.’ He opened his address by stressing the importance of taking time out of our busy schedules to remember the cataclysmic events of the last century . Read more here...
In October 2010 the Board of the FW de Klerk Foundation decided to establish an annual FW de Klerk Goodwill Award to honour the person - or organisation - who has made an exemplary contribution to the promotion of goodwill between South Africans. Read more here...
In celebration of the 21st Anniversary of FW de Klerk’s speech that initiated South Africa’s constitutional transformation process the FW de Klerk Foundation, in co-operation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, will be hosting a Conference on 'The Things that Unite Us'. Read more here...
According to reports Mr. Cecil Burgess, the Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Portfolio Committee that is considering the Protection of Information Bill, remains adamant that the Protection of Information Bill should apply to all state organs, regardless of their relevance to state security and irrespective of costs and administrative burden. Read more here...
According to a recent report of the South African Institute of Race Relations the South African Police and the Department of Defence and Military Veterans have different approaches to achieving employment equity targets. These two approaches reflect two different points of departure. Read more here...
With your support the FW de Klerk Foundation had a successful 2010 as we continued to defend South Africa’s constitutional accord and promote positive inter-community relations. We have identified ten highlights of our activities during 2010. Read more here...
The Foundation recently launched a special edition of Consensus on the Freedom of Expression. It addresses the key aspects of the Protection of Information Bill and the Media Appeals Tribunal and includes a range of resources to assist journalists, organisations and other interested parties concerned with protecting the freedom of expression. Click here for the electronic version.
FW de Klerk's views on 'Conversations with Myself' appeared in Die Burger on 16 December 2010. Read more here...
When he launched the SACP’s ‘Red October’ campaign, Blade Nzimande, the SACP’s Secretary-General, called for a celebration of Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and the wonderful era that it had inaugurated for the Russian people. Nzimande’s glowing interpretation of communist history warrants further consideration. Read more here...
Dave Steward responds to Jeremy Cronin's article of 21 October on www.politicsweb.co.za - "I am glad to see that the Alliance has decided to trundle one of its heaviest pieces of intellectual artillery - Jeremy Cronin - onto what it calls ‘the battlefield of ideas.’ He has come out, canons a-blazing, in response to widespread criticism of Government’s threat to curb the freedom of expression by means of the Protection of Information Bill and the proposed Media Appeals Tribunal. I keenly awaited his defence of these initiatives - but there was none." Read more here...
Not since the days of John Vorster have liberal values been under such attack by government as they are now. This assault has measurable consequences. According to the latest ‘Economic Freedom of the World Report’ South Africa has slumped from its position as 42nd freest economy in the world in 2000 to the 82nd position in 2008. This places it in the survey’s second lowest quartile. Read more here...
Some countries are born nations; some achieve nationhood and some have nationhood thrust upon them. Click here for Dave Steward's thoughts on national unity for Heritage Day.
There are some who believe that one should not react to Malema’s outbursts, that to do so simply gives him oxygen to further inflame the national debate. Unfortunately, this is not the case. For better or worse, he comes from - and claims to represent - a vast and restless constituency of young South Africans who are effectively shut out of the economy by unemployment and their lack of education. They hunger for hope and for some way out of their desperate condition. Read more here...
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- In a speech at an energy conference in Doha on 8 December 2011 F W de Klerk discussed the role that governance and social responsibility play in the sustainability of political and economic systems.De Klerk said that free market democracies would have to develop a deep sense of social responsibility among their citizens if they wished to ensure the sustainability of their system. Read more here...
- Addressing a gathering of bankers in Switzerland, FW de Klerk discussed the critical problem of the continuing gap between rich and poor in South Africa. He said government policies were not effective and the only way to solve the problem was to concentrate on the basics by providing decent education, ensuring flexible labour markets and by creating a climate for sustained economic growth. Read more here...
- FW de Klerk says South Africans have reached a pivotal point in our history where all citizens will have to rally around the Constitution to promote genuine equality. Speaking to the Cape Town Club, he called for dialogue with the ANC in the same frank and constructive way that we did during the negotiations of the 1990s. Read more here...
- FW de Klerk met with New7Wonders Founder-President Bernard Weber in
Cape Town and appealed to teachers in South Africa to encourage children in their classes to vote for Table Mountain as one of the seven new wonders of the world. Mr De Klerk said: “In 1994 we all united in our country’s first democratic election. Our children could not vote with us at the time, as they were not registered voters. Now they can vote for Table Mountain. Here is a special chance to unite our nation. Table Mountain as a world heritage site belongs to all who love South Africa."
- FW de Klerk addressed delegates to a Merck conference in Germany. He said Africa will represent one of the main growth areas for European exports and investments . Read more here...
- FW de Klerk delivered a speech on the valuable legacy of our Constitution to the Deloitte Partners and Directors Conference in Cape Town on 21 September.
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- FW de Klerk delivered a speech at Kinmen Peace Park, Republic of China, on 23 August 2011, during the centennial celebrations of the Republic of China.
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- Mr F W de Klerk delivered the fifth Mathews Phosa Memorial Lecture on 11 August at
the Afrikaans Language Museum in Paarl. He said that language is at the root of of our existence as human beings. The right to use one’s own language is also essential for human dignity and the right to equality. “That is why the foundational principles of our Constitution so clearly protect and promote language rights”. Read more here...
- The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of Mr Malema’s remarks regarding former President De Klerk. Read more here...
- STATEMENT BY FW DE KLERK ON THE DEATH OF GEN MAGNUS MALAN: I have learned with sorrow of the death of Gen Magnus Malan. Gen Malan played a leading role, as Chief of the South African Defence Force and as Minister of Defence, in developing the SADF into the most formidable military force in Africa. Under his leadership the SADF played an indispensible role in defending South Africa and our region until the collapse of Soviet communism facilitated the commencement of the negotiations that led to the establishment of our non-racial constitutional democracy. From an early stage Gen Malan and the SADF accepted that there could never be a military solution to the constitutional challenges facing South Africa and worked diligently for the establishment of conditions that would make a peaceful and negotiated settlement possible.I should like to extend my sincere condolences to Gen Malan’s wife, family, friends and to all his former SADF comrades. ISSUED BY THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION, CAPE TOWN, 18 JULY 2011
- STATEMENT BY F W DE KLERK ON THE DEATH OF PROF KADER ASMAL: I have learned with great sorrow of the death of Prof Kader Asmal. He was a life-long campaigner for freedom. He was one of our new democracy's founding fathers - and was present at its birth. He lent colour, humour and intelligence to our political debate. Almost to the moment of his death he remained a fearless champion of the democratic values that underlie our Constitution. South Africa will miss him. I should like to convey my and Elita's sincere condolences - and those of the F W de Klerk Foundation - to his family and friends. ISSUED BY THE F W DE KLERK FOUNDATION, 22 JUNE 2011.
- Please click here for FW de Klerk's speech to the Adele Searll Ladies 100 Club (1 June 2011) on The Balance between Success and Failure.
- Please click here for FW de Klerk's speech to the Oslo Centre Seminar (12 May 2011) on Lessons from South Africa's Transition to Nonracial Democracy.
- Please click here for FW de Klerk's speech to the Warande, Brussels (10 May 2011) on The Need to Accommodate Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World.
- Click here for FW de Klerk's speech entitled South Africa after Twenty-One Years of Change: What Have We Learned?
- FW de Klerk's speech entitled The Role of Leadership during South Africa's Transition is available here.
- An article by F W de Klerk on the relevance of South Africa’s constitutional transformation for the unfolding situation in North Africa and the Middle East was published in the prestigious American publication, Foreign Policy. Read the article here...
- Click here for FW de Klerk's speech delivered to the Rotary Reunion Conference in Cape Town on 4 February 2011, entitled What the World Needs Now - Seeking Peace'.
- On 2 February 2011 FW de Klerk delivered a speech to the FW de Klerk Foundation's Conference on the Things that Unite Us as South Africans. During the evening's gala dinner, in celebration of the 21st Anniversary of his Speech to Parliament on 2 February 1990, he presented the first annual FW de Klerk Goodwill Award to Dr Dan
