Helen Suzman Foundation

HSF rejects finalisation of white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection

The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) is dismayed by Cabinet’s decision to adopts as final the White Paper on the Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection: Towards a Complete Overhaul of the Migration System in South Africa (White Paper). This, despite strenuous objections from numerous civil society organizations, including HSF.

Manifestos, funding sources should guide your vote

“Who can I vote for because it seems as if all political parties are the same.”  This statement has dominated election discourse in the past and will likely feature again leading up to the May 29th elections.

Government not only failed on housing but still violates constitution

102-year-old Emily Mohapi has waited for a RDP house for more than two decades

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XII

South African Oral Presentation at the ICJ

Public sitting held on Thursday 11 January 2024, at 10 a.m., at the Peace Palace, President Donoghue presiding, in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)

Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Litigation

The Helen Suzman Foundation needs to expose a scandalous falsehood being put out by a shadowy organisation calling itself Put South Africa First.