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South Africa: De Clerk insists he’s not guilty of apartheid crimes

SOUTH AFRICA’S last apartheid president claimed yesterday he was not culpable for the oppression and bloodshed in the final years before democracy.

FW De Klerk made the assertion in an interview with eNCA news before he joined two other ex-presidents in piling pressure on unpopular office-holder Jacob Zuma.

Thabo Mbeki, sacked by the ANC in 2008 over his persecution of then-vice-president Mr Zuma and other ministers, and his successor caretaker president Kgalema Mohlanthe joined Mr De Klerk at the National Foundations Dialogue Initiative in Johannesburg.

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