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Rage in S. Africa Over Former President’s Claim that Apartheid ‘Not a Crime Against Humanity’
By Anita Powell  February 17, 2020

 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s final apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has found himself in the crosshairs of the powerful African National Congress -- and many others -- since he said he didn’t believe the racist system was a crime against humanity.

While his comments - made earlier this month - have provoked outrage, African scholars have noted a sense of continental amnesia about the past, and say this misplaced nostalgia is not an exclusively South African phenomenon.

De Klerk was instrumental in ending apartheid, releasing Nelson Mandela from prison and ushering in democracy in 1994. De Klerk shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela for their role in ending the apartheid regime that treated the nation’s non-white majority as second-class citizens.

More at: https://www.voanews.com/africa/rage-s-africa-over-former-presidents-claim-apartheid-not-crime-against-humanity

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ANC is a crime against humanity.
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South Africa is still a s**thole regardless who is in power.
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South Africa was better off under apartheid.

Don't think so?
Take a look at the [former] country of Rhodesia to the north.
How's that workin' out for the whites there?

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South Africa was better off under apartheid.

Don't think so?
Take a look at the [former] country of Rhodesia to the north.
How's that workin' out for the whites there?

True dat.  Last I heard SA was looking at copying Rhodesia and confiscating farms.  By force.
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Right now, nobody forecasts these dire incidents for South Africa, they are ranked a free country.

Things like the Soweto riots didn't help anything and those were unjust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_uprising

All we can do is hope the same mistakes are not repeated.

That movie, "Cry Freedom", really is good in portraying matters.


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South Africa’s final apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk,

The "Jimmy Carter of South Africa".
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