Apartheid-era South African president calls for justice for female victims of violence in Guardian article but some say his own record needs scrutiny
South Africans don’t give much thought to FW de Klerk these days. Like Mikhail Gorbachev, his fellow Nobel peace laureate, the last apartheid president is more highly regarded outside his own country than in it.
But some South Africans were taken aback to see De Klerk putting himself forward in a Guardian article on 10 March as an advocate of protecting women from violence and asserting that “holding perpetrators accountable, irrespective of how long ago the crime was committed, is essential to stamping out impunity and preventing future atrocities”.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/22/fw-deklerk-apartheid-crimes-accountability-south-africa
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