FW De Klerk booted from American Bar Association’s talk on rule of law, racism after wave of objections via TheCitizen_News
FW de Klerk at the FW de Klerk Foundation conference at the Raddison Blue Hotel in the Waterfront on January 31, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)
“Presenting the programme would not help the association advance our Goal III priority,” it stated, in reference to its aim to “eliminate bias and enhance diversity” by promoting “full and equal participation in the association, our profession, and the justice system by all persons” and eliminating “bias in the legal profession and the justice system”.
Calata maintains De Klerk was complicit in the 27 June 1985 state-sanctioned murders of his father Fort and his fellow teachers, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkhonto. The men became known as the Cradock Four. “The ‘signal’ appeared as an agenda item for a meeting held in Tuynhuys on 12 June 1985. Record of attendance shows that De Klerk was present at this meeting.”
“In academic settings, we do not generally support attempts to silence speakers with whom we disagree; we prefer instead to engage with them in a process of argument and counter-argument,” it stated. “Such a statement, though unsurprising, betrays a sad disregard for black lives. An apology for this statement was issued, not by him, but by the De Klerk Foundation on his behalf. He remains in denial of the fact that apartheid was declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations Organisation. He remains in denial that the recorded brutal killing of the black majority constitutes a crime against humanity.
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