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SOUTH AFRICA’S last apartheid president claimed yesterday he was not culpable for the oppression and bloodshed in the final years before democracy.
FW De Klerk made the assertion in an interview with eNCA news before he joined two other ex-presidents in piling pressure on unpopular office-holder Jacob Zuma.
Thabo Mbeki, sacked by the ANC in 2008 over his persecution of then-vice-president Mr Zuma and other ministers, and his successor caretaker president Kgalema Mohlanthe joined Mr De Klerk at the National Foundations Dialogue Initiative in Johannesburg.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
SALEEM BADAT and VASU REDDY introduce a new book about an outstanding interpreter of the world, and an activist scholar committed to changing society
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS