De Klerk apologises for apartheid in posthumous video
Former South African President FW de Klerk arrives to attend President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation address at parliament in Cape Town on February 13, 2020. PHOTO | POOL | REUTERS
FW de Klerk, showing a keen awareness of his tarnished legacy, delivered a posthumous video message apologising for apartheid, released just hours after his death Thursday.
"I am often accused by critics that I in some way or another continued to justify apartheid or separate development, as we later preferred to call it," he said in the message released by his foundation.
