Funders

At inception the Trust received endowment funding in an amount of one million US dollars from the Norwegian government.  This was followed by several other donations which provided funding for its various projects.

Past and current funders of the Trust’s projects include:

• Atlantic Philanthropies
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection; Ismail Mahomed Scholarship
• Bank of America Conservation Programme
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Bertha Foundation
  • Project: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; Project: Archive of the Constitution Making
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • ​​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Claude Leon Foundation
  • ​​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Delegation of the Flemish Government
  • ​Project:  African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Freedom House
  • ​​Project: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• French Institute of South Africa
  • Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Ford Foundation
  • ​​​Projects: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; Constitutional Court Art Collection; Franklin Thomas Scholarship
• Foundation for Society, Law and Art in South Africa
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Mercury Phoenix Foundation
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection
• Mellon Foundation
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection; Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Mott Foundation
  • ​Project: Oral History of the Constitutional Court
• Open Society Foundation - South Africa
  • ​Project: African Law Clerks Exchange Programme; OSF25 Scholarships
• Open Society Fund
  • ​Project:  Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
  • ​Project:  Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
  • ​​Project:  Constitutional Court Law library
• The Rhodes Trust
  • ​​Projects: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII); Constitutional Court Law library
• South African Constitutional Court Trust UK
  • ​Projects: Pius Langa Memorial Fellowship at UCL; Constitutional Court Art Collection; Constitutional Court Judgments Database
• US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation
  • ​Project: Constitutional Court Art Collection

To avoid conflict of interests, the Trust is limited to raising funds from individuals or organisations that have little or no prospect of litigating before the Constitutional Court. This precludes many local foundations and charities, since they are linked to corporations active in South Africa.