SACP Slams FW De Klerk’s ‘Spurious’ Claims That Apartheid Was Not A Crime Against Humanity

Charles Molele

The SA Communist Party has slammed former President FW de Klerk’s claims that apartheid was not a crime against humanity, saying his concealment of the atrocities of apartheid was ‘unacceptable’ and should be condemned.  

“Apartheid cannot be justified in any manner whatsoever, contrary to what de Klerk seeks to do,” the SACP said in a statement on Saturday.

During Thursday’s state of the nation address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Economic Freedom Fighters disrupted the sitting, calling for De Klerk to leave Parliament for his assertions earlier that apartheid was not a crime against humanity.

EFF leader Julius Malema said De Klerk had no remorse for the atrocities committed under apartheid and therefore does not deserve to be a guest of a democratic parliament.

“We have a man who has got blood of innocent people in this house which is supposed to represent the will of our