Mbeki Says He Will Send De Klerk UN Convention Labelling Apartheid As A Crime Against Humanity

Charles Molele

Former President Thabo Mbeki has vowed to send apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, a copy of the 1973 UN General Assembly Convention declaring apartheid a crime against humanity.

This is after de Klerk told him on Thursday in Parliament that he didn’t know there was ever a legal document which declared apartheid a crime against humanity.

“We were sitting next to each other in Parliament. I asked him about that. What transpires is that he actually did not know that there is a convention declaring apartheid a crime against humanity,” said Mbeki.

Mbeki was speaking to reporters at KwaZulu-Natal’s ANC provincial executive committee political school, which he also addressed.

“He said to me he had been asked a question, and he had said apartheid was reprehensible, he apologised for the bad things that had happened but he was making a very narrow comment,” said Mbeki, recalling his