President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his disdain for a contentious comment made by former president FW de Klerk that apartheid was not a crime against humanity. SONAreply
“Apartheid was inherently a crime against humanity; it was a crime against the oppressed people of South Africa even before it was so declared by the UN in 1973,” said Ramaphosa.
“Apartheid was so immoral in its conception and so devastating in its execution that there is no South African living today who is not touched by its legacy. I would say that to deny this is treasonous.”Ramaphosa said this in his opening address in his response to the National Assembly following the two-day debate about his state of the nation address .
In a statement released earlier this month, the FW de Klerk Foundation said the UN’s classification of apartheid as a crime against humanity formed part of an agenda by the Soviet Union and the ANC, along with its allies, to stigmatise white South Africans. The statement also sought to justify apartheid and argue that the institutionalised racial segregation was not a crime against humanity.
This caused widespread outcry, and, during Sona the EFF questioned why De Klerk was in the house. Party leader Julius Malema asked that De Klerk be removed from the public gallery, where he was sitting with former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe.It was a crime against the oppressed people of South Africa even before it was so declared by the United Nations in 1973.
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