apartheid

SA citizens who ‘benefited from apartheid’ speak out against ‘insensitive’ statements

Concerned citizens who “benefited from apartheid” have taken a stand against recent apartheid-related statements which they have described as “insensitive”. In a statement, supported by various heavyweights, professors, business people, former politicians and journalists, the concerned citizens added their voices to the recent furore. The group included: Emeritus Professor Willie[…]

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FW de Klerk must apologise on live TV

Former president FW de Klerk must account for his actions during apartheid and give an apology live on TV, a very small group of protesters said outside his foundation’s Cape Town offices on Wednesday. “[What we want is] for him to disclose what he has done, what instruction he has[…]

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Picket planned to protest De Klerk’s apartheid statements

A protest is planned for Wednesday in Cape Town against former president FW de Klerk and his foundation. Convener of the #DeKlerkMustFall protest Songezo Mazizi told News24 that they were expecting a number of citizens and activists who were concerned about the foundation’s recent statement about apartheid to take part.[…]

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Neil Aggett inquest: Apartheid cops who did not apply for amnesty regrouping, says TRC commissioner

Yasmin Sooka, a former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) commissioner, says many former apartheid police officers – some of whom were in police command structures – have been regrouping “to prevent any information emerging around things that implicate them”. Speaking to News24 after the reopened inquest into the death of[…]

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ANC condemns ‘unacceptable’ WCED trip to Israel

Capetonians have reacted strongly in opposition to the Western Cape Education Department’s (WCED) visit to Israel, calling it ironic, disgraceful and unacceptable. The ANC’s shadow MEC for education in the Western Cape legislature, Khalid Sayed says that the claims the DA-run province is making cannot legitimise nor justify the trip and[…]

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