We dare not forget, we dare not trivialise the suffering under apartheid | Saturday Star

It shouldn’t be that hard to do if the groundswell of disgust - cutting across class, creed and colour - is anything to go by after former president FW de Klerk’s utterances in the 30th anniversary interview marking his freeing of Nelson Mandela.

This week, De Klerk unequivocally and unconditionally retracted his statement that apartheid wasn’t a crime against humanity. It was the right thing to do, but he won’t be praised for it or acknowledged for that anymore than his role in helping set this country on a path to democracy with Mandela will be.

In fact, the nation’s saint and founding father, the late great Madiba himself, has found his own legacy under increasing revision by people who should know better and those who don’t know - but do have opinions. That, unfortunately, is the state we find ourselves in. We live in a post-truth era, where opinions, particularly outlandish ones, trump facts if they are repeated often and stridently enough until the voices of reason are drowned out.

RitchKev Today we have to pass a law against the ANC for repeating history with the BIG difference of LOOTING the State Coffers and for putting the country into shambles! Who is with me on this one

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