Former president FW de Klerk, who helped end apartheid, says sanctions against Israel would be “counter-productive”. FW de Klerk told Israel Radio on Sunday that comparisons between apartheid South Africa and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians are “odious”, and that he prefers “dialogue and negotiation as a way to get[…]
Race is dividing South Africa and robust freedom of speech should be promoted for the sake of a freer public discourse in search of mutual understanding, two former presidents and business tycoon Johann Rupert said in Cape Town on Tuesday. “Freedom of speech is totally under attack. I mean Zelda[…]
In a recent opinion piece, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Social Sciences research fellow Imraan Buccus says apartheid era president FW de Klerk has been erroneously painted to be a forward thinking leader. Twenty five years after he made his famous speech unbanning liberation movements like the African National Congress and[…]
Former Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown’s lawyers on Thursday withdrew his urgent bail application in the Western Cape High Court, Eyewitness News reported. The convicted fraudster’s lawyers John Louw and Mark Filton withdrew the application as the court did not have the jurisdiction to deal with the matter because[…]
FW de Klerk was “not a messiah”, the ANC said on Friday in response to the City of Cape Town’s proposal to rename Table Bay Boulevard after the former president. “He was part of apartheid. He cannot be a messiah. He did not liberate us,” national spokesman Zizi Kodwa said.[…]
The Congress of SA Trade Unions is opposed to the naming of Cape Town’s Table Bay Boulevard after former president FW de Klerk, the federation said on Thursday. Provincial secretary of Cosatu in the Western Cape, Tony Ehrenreich, said the City of Cape Town compared De Klerk and former president[…]
Former president FW de Klerk on Thursday expressed disappointment that the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, due to be held in Cape Town later this month, would be relocated. “I can understand the reaction of the Nobel Peace Laureates, but nevertheless am convinced that it was not the[…]
Former president FW de Klerk on Tuesday said the only way the fighting in the Middle East could stop was through dialogue. “What is happening there is tragic. I believe that the only way out of it is through negotiations,” he said at the Maropeng Cradle of Humankind World Heritage[…]
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