South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a US seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate, his foundation said on Sunday.
"However, it appears unacceptable in the current super-heated racial climate that any leader from South Africa's troubled past should be permitted to retain the slightest vestige of honour," it said.The death of Black man George Floyd under the knee of a U.S. police officer last month has triggered a wave of anti-racism protests around the world.
He is the son of Fort Calata, who was killed along with three other anti-apartheid activists by South African police in 1985 in an incident known as"The Cradock Four".
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