Despite the apology from former president FW de Klerk, we are left with the impression that he remains insensitive to the feelings of the mass of South Africans. He is simply out of touch.
FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, and his foundation, have learnt the hard way the dangers of the comparative politics of sin. He recently gave an interview to mark his historic speech to parliament on 2 February 1990 when he announced the freeing of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of political organisations.
De Klerk was immediately engulfed in controversy. Condemnation of his statement came in thick and fast. Big names entered the fray, including former president Thabo Mbeki and Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The South African Council of Churches issued a statement, as did the governing African National Congress . And the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters called for his ejection from Parliament when President Cyril Ramaphosa was waiting to deliver his State of Nation speech.
committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. It is, in any event, of no great comfort to people suffering brutality of any kind to be told that there is always someone else who is suffering worse than them.De Klerk might well respond that his National Party implemented apartheid in good faith in 1948, believing it to be a moral course of action whereby the white minority and black majority could live peacefully and productively alongside one another, without either one dominating the other.
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