Afrikaner intellectuals: “As concerned citizens who have benefitted from apartheid, we acknowledge that apartheid was a crime against humanity and morally indefensible”
“We acknowledge that apartheid was a crime against humanity and morally indefensible,” the group said in a declaration on Sunday.
De Klerk said in interviews before President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address that apartheid could not be compared with genocide and that more people died because of “black-on-black violence” than because of apartheid. On Sunday, the Afrikaner intellectuals said they had benefitted from apartheid and were “appalled” by the efforts to “avoid admitting outright that apartheid was indeed a crime against humanity”.
Appalled by continued insensitive and transparent efforts to avoid admitting outright that apartheid was indeed a crime against humanity;Taking cognisance of the spontaneous outburst of outrage in the public debate, not only from those who had suffered under apartheid, but also from those who had benefitted from it;1: We acknowledge that apartheid was a crime against humanity and morally...
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