Afrika: The other side of the coin

An open letter to Nobel Prize Laureates, Willem de Klerk and Bishop Desmond Tutu

Mr. Frederick Willem de Klerk, Bishop Desmond Philo Tutu, Sirs, By your own admission, Mr. de Klerk, you do not regard apartheid a crime against humanity.  You expressed your view in your interview with CNN earlier this year.

According to a CNN transcript, you defended in the interview with Christiane Amampour the system of black African "homelands", also known as "Bantustans", which were a series of geo-strategically positioned and isolated puppet states.  Those were created under South Africa's racist-apartheid government for the strategic purpose to separate people based on their ethnicity.  Your representative followed up saying, your "comment was taken out of context".

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