Helen Suzman Foundation

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.

Perspectives and Facts on AGOA

As part of its new “South Africa in the World” project, HSF releases this brief explanatory note on the AGOA Summit happening from tomorrow until 4 November 2023. It is written by HSF’s foreign policy fellow, Azwimpheleli Langalanga.

Homeless people out in the cold in Gauteng

The 10th of July 2023 was marked with joy and jubilation by many residents in Gauteng as the province experienced snow for the first time since 2012. For the homeless in Gauteng, it was an entirely different prospect altogether.

Minister of Home Affairs Decision to Terminate ZEP Set Aside

As today’s judgment in the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) matter makes clear, what is at stake are matters both of enormous consequence but also striking ordinariness.

Manuel Chang Must Now Be Extradited to the USA

Former Mozambican Finance Minister and Member of Parliament, Manuel Chang must now be extradited to and prosecuted in the USA for allegedly defrauding the Mozambican people of some $2bn in development loans extended by American investors.

HSF Statement Re National Shutdown

The call for a national shutdown is not one which we take lightly. Like millions of South Africans we are gatvol of the crises that are of our political leaders’ making but are ours to endure.

In memoriam Charles Simkins

It is with great sadness that the Helen Suzman Foundation has received news of the death of Charles Simkins. He had been in hospital over the past few months and had, until his illness, been head of research at the Foundation, a position he had held for 8 years.