FW de Klerk Responds To EFF’s SONA Attack, Denies Apartheid Was A Crime Against Humanity

Charles Molele

Former President FW de Klerk has once again denied assertions by the EFF and others on the left that apartheid was a crime against humanity, as declared by the United Nation General Assembly in 1973.

De Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid-era President, was responding to EFF leader Julius Malema’s attempts on Thursday night to eject him from Parliament, accusing him of being ‘unrepentant’ and a murderer of black political activists in the 80s.

An irate Malema accused Parliament of historical revisionism, saying it was wrong to invite De Klerk, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for their efforts to end the white minority rule in South Africa.

“The idea that apartheid was ‘a crime against humanity’ was, and remains, an ‘agitprop’ project initiated by the Soviets and their ANC/SACP allies to stigmatise white South Africans by associating them with genuine crimes against humanity – which have