Twenty-six years after announcing the release of former president Nelson Mandela, the last apartheid-era president, FW de Klerk, now faces possible criminal charges.
An anti racism group, which will be officially launched on Wednesday, says it intends laying charges against De Klerk and former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok.
The Anti-Racism Action Forum says it will open 22 criminal charges at the Hillbrow police station in Johannesburg for “crimes committed against black people for which they didn’t get amnesty".
Araf spokesperson Zandi Radebe said with the country seized with the topic of racism it was time that the historical context be put front and centre in the debate.
She said there's a lack of understanding about racism in South Africa and how it had manifested.
Radebe said that the De Klerk Foundation had recently lodged a complaint of inciting extreme violence against white South Africans through 45 social media postings with the Human Rights Commission.
"We find it quite ironic and contradictory for someone who has refused openly to apply for amnesty, which means he is not agreeing to the definition that apartheid was a crime against humanity. It means to us that he did not find his contribution and the murder of black people as a crime against humanity as defined by the United Nations" she said
