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Tiny steps: Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk make opening press statements during the first talks between the National Party government and the ANC.(Photo by © Louise Gubb/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Apartheid truths die with De Klerk

The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
The last president of the apartheid dispension FW de Klerk. (Photo by Ginkgo Agency/ www.21Icons.com via Getty Images)
APARTHEID

FW de Klerk ‘eroded his stature and became a small man’

Mixed reactions from South Africans as apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, dies after battling with cancer

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
FW de Klerk (below left) at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Gallo Images/Rodger Bosch)
APARTHEID

Cradock Four back to haunt De Klerk

Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings during apartheid

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
CRADOCK FOUR

The dead man who haunts all our futures

Matthew Goniwe? Just one more death. Just one more death that could shake our country. ANTON HARBER reports on the Cradock community leader, pictured on the right, who was…

  • Library
  • Anton Harber
19 min read