EFF rejects FW de Klerk Foundation’s apology on apartheid utterances
17 February 2020
The EFF unequivocally rejects the F.W De Klerk Foundation's apology regarding its statement on Apartheid not being a crime against humanity. The foundation, which De Klerk has been using as a proxy to rationalise his hateful Apartheid apologist utterances needs to learn to stay out of affairs which are beyond its grasp.
As the EFF we reject the apology as one that lacks sincerity and relevance, as the individual who was the source of these hateful views remains unrepentant on his comments and avoids accountability by using a foundation which bears his name.
We believe that the time for empty apologies in South Africa as a means of reconciliation is over. Apologies for the brutality black South Africans have experienced has taken various forms in South Africa, with all of them being publicity stunts. There must be a decisive move from efforts of reconciliation to justice, as justice is the only form of recourse that can be taken against those who refuse to repent for the evils they have committed.
The acceptance of apologies without justice is exactly why black South Africans find themselves landless, undermined and on the outskirts of humanity and the economy. It is the acceptance of apologies from people who never apologised, that inspired De Klerk to declare with confidence that the segregation of black people, their humiliation, dispossession and racist separate development were not crimes against the humanity of black people.