Can parliament stop inviting FW de Klerk to events? Apparently not without 'careful considerations'

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“It is expected that our MPs reflect on this and begin to say what do you do with individuals who knowingly go out and spit in the face of our people and want to deny that apartheid was a crime against humanity when an international body like the UN had...

told eNCA the calls to not invite de Klerk had no weight.

Tsenoli said De Klerk was invited to parliamentary events because he was part of the presidency, just like other former presidents. “As parliament, our job is to invite, as we have done in the past with other former presidents, and this is what we have done. “It's a deflection. The critical point is that [former] president De Klerk, like Thabo Mbeki, [Jacob] Zuma, [Kgalema] Motlanthe and [Nelson] Mandela when he lived, is on the list of people who are continually invited,” he said.He added that it would be difficult to exclude De Klerk without exercising “careful considerations of the criteria we would use to exclude him or any other person in future”.

 

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De Klerk must learn to decline an invite. It's like going to a wedding although invited out of courtesy and you know you not welcome but you still go,...

Lets face it. Our country has a few minor issues to resolve. And then this massive De Klerk issue. For us to go from 99% to 100% paradise we need to focus on this, even if it takes all of the national debate for the next 6 months Let's stay focused

Can we carefully consider the state of the SA citizens? That's what you stupid MPs are paid to do... Unemployment and violence is all we see

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