EFF wants De Klerk's Nobel Peace Prize revoked - and it hasn't been done before
17 February 2020
The EFF would be making history if it was successful in having the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former president FW de Klerk revoked, following his initial insistence that apartheid was not a crime against humanity.
It hasn't been done before, as there is no provision for this in the Nobel Foundation's rules.
The EFF recently indicated it would write to the Nobel Foundation to revoke the prize, with its former chairperson Dali Mpofu saying on Twitter that he would formally launch a "non-partisan Citizens Campaign" on Twitter to this effect, if they reached 10 000 retweets.
This was achieved in eight hours and Mpofu wrote: "I honestly thought it would take days! Thanks to the volunteers too... I'm told the withdrawal of a Nobel Peace Prize has never been done before. That is EXACTLY why we are got to to [sic] it! Lets go! #BringBackThePrize."