South Africa: EFF Wants Forensic Inquiry to Probe De Klerk's Role in Apartheid Killings

15 February 2020

The EFF is threatening to take legal action to ensure a forensic inquiry is opened into former president FW De Klerk after his foundation issued a statement on Friday stating: "The idea that apartheid was 'a crime against humanity' was, and remains, an 'agitprop' project initiated by the Soviets and their ANC/SACP allies to stigmatise white South Africans."

In a statement released on Saturday, the EFF said it would also explore all legal options to reopen a forensic inquest into De Klerk, to look investigate all those who were killed by the state under his presidency, with the aim of prosecuting him for the apartheid murders.

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