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Dr Harlan Cloete’s Presentation at the FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference

The FW de Klerk Foundation held their annual conference at the President Hotel in Cape Town and welcomed many esteemed guest and speakers to the event, one of the speakers being Dr Harlan Cloete.

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Delivered by Dr Harlan Cloete and published by the FW de Klerk Foundation.

“The weight of the past, the pull of the future, the push of the present”

University of the Free State – Centre for Gender and Africa Studies

Introduction

The chairperson of the FW de Klerk Foundation, Elita de Klerk, CEO of the FW Foundation, Christo van der Rheede, Ambassador of the Federal republic of Germany, Andreas Peschke, Resident representative of the Konrad Adenhauer Stiftung, Gregor Jaecke, CEO of Sygnia, Magda Wierzycka, coach of the back-to-back world rugby champions, Johan Rassie Erasmus, brothers and sisters and fellow South Africans – Good afternoon, Goeie Middag, Molweni, Awe.

I consider this a great honour and a privilege to speak at this conference here this afternoon. I bring you greetings from the University of the Free State and the newly appointed rector, Professor Hester Klopper and my colleagues at the Center for Gender and Africa studies headed by Prof Stephanie Cawood.

I also bring you greetings from my hometown. The town that has gifted this nation with the most Springbok rugby players and officials – with fourteen rugby clubs with a collective history of more than 900 years. It is the rugby headquarters of South Africa and home to South Africa’s latest capped Springbok captain Salman Moerat. No other town in South Africa has more world cup winners than Paarl. Kurt Lee, Grant, Canon. And a week ago Paarl bowled their way into the cricket history books with a match winning twenty overs of spin bowling led by the Prince of Paarl Bjorn Fortuin – the home of the table topping Paarl Royals at the Boland Stadium. Paarl is also home of KC 107.7 the child of democracy formed in 1996 by the youth to tell and mirror the stories. This is the only town in South Africa where five churches came together in 1926 to form the Athlone Institute through blood, sweat and tears, built their own High School (Noorder Paarl) at…

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