The reformer FW de Klerk left politics having secured for South Africa a constitutional federation and commitment to non-racialism, which the political elite began breaching before the ink on the Constitution was dry. Why, then, has his presidential foundation come out swinging in favour of unitarism and race law?
In a recent Rapport article, the Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, Christo van der Rheede, launched a broadside at the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its work on non-racialism broadly, and the IRR’s Index of Race Law in particular, of which I am the editor.
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