The statement issued by the De Klerk Foundation on Friday – the Day of Celebrating Love – amplifying FW de Klerk’s position that apartheid was not a crime against humanity, but a Soviet propaganda ploy, cannot go unchallenged by the South African Council of Churches .
But for the De Klerk Foundation, representing as it does the last leader of that apartheid regime, to tell us in blind acquiescence to its patron De Klerk, that apartheid was no crime against humanity but a Soviet propaganda ploy, is an insult to the millions of South Africans who su?ered apartheid, and a slap in the face of those who seek justice, peace and universal progress for all.
Their position would justify the 1988 bombing of both the SACC’s Khotso House and Khanya House of the Catholic Bishops Conference. Lest we forget, between 1960 and 1983, the apartheid government forcibly removed some 3.5 million black South Africans in what has been described as “one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history”.
Let them ask the people of District Six who were uprooted 54 years ago almost to the day, and of Sophiatown whose settled homes and thriving businesses were broken up by apartheid, which sadistically renamed Sophiatown Triomf – the triumph of a moral crime! Let them ask us, who lived all our young lives on the run from the police on account of the pass laws through which you could be declared a vagrant, an idle Bantu, an outlaw, or poll tax delinquent – itself a race-based politically oppressive tax.
For the express education of the De Klerk Foundation and others of like thinking, “the crime of apartheid” is mentioned as such in Section 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which describes Crimes Against Humanity. “The crime of apartheid” means inhumane acts of a character similar to those...
Why this apartheid idiocy again comes up in 2020 (year of the rat), apartheid in S.A was introduced in 1948 (year of the rat) Strange...
He made a foolish mistake. He needs to apologize and mean it!
Hopefully one day we as South Africans will have to look at tribalism & Factionalism, because they aren’t different to Apartheid.
If the EFF hadn't confronted De Klerk there wouldn't be all this noise from Mbeki & Tutu.Everyone is now jumping on the bandwagon whereas the interview is 2 weeks old & they saw nothing wrong at the time.
Fully agree. Apartheid was demeaning and stripped africans from its dignity if u dont get it,then u r humanly inept,to grasp what my parents &those before them went through, the humiliation of being removed just because their colour was the wrong side of a law which was inhuman
How was he given Nobel ntoni ntoni if apartheid was a crime? Some people think we are fools.
The De Klerk Foundation but NOT De Klerk himself?
The sooner he apologizes the better! We have to move on.
And rightfully so
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