Xeno wrote:Vermilion wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59247115
FW De Klerk, the former president who helped end apartheid/freed Nelson Mandela in South Africa has passed away.
I have some mixed feelings about de Klerk overall but I can't deny he had apologised to the people of South Africa many times.
It does seem strange how he is being presented as a purely heroic figure in death by some. By his own words he had very little choice but to end apartheid amid the economic sanctions South Africa was under, and there were no real repercussions for those who enabled and benefited from apartheid.