Roelf Meyer remembers FW De Klerk ahead of funeral

FW De Klerk will be laid to rest at a private funeral on Sunday.

The former apartheid president passed away in Cape Town last week.

Roelf Meyer, a former cabinet minister and someone who worked closely with De Klerk, says that he took the necessary steps to liberate South Africa.

“The reality is that we had racial separation and oppression for more than 300 years in this country. Since the first white people arrived on the shores of Africa. That is what FW succeeded in dismantling with what he did on 2 February.

“The liberation struggle that the ANC started was not only after apartheid formally came into being after 1948. The ANC was formed in 1912 already to liberate the majority of people of this country,” Meyer said.

“So it took a long time to get to that point but the reality is that by time FW got the opportunity to do something about it, in other words when he was elected leader of the country as it was then in 1989, he immediately took steps within in a question of a few months after he was elected.

“He took the necessary steps to free Mr Mandela and to start the process, he very clearly said, it was about changing SA, in fact, the words that he used in a personal discussion was: we want to liquidate South Africa as it was and we want to start completely anew.”

Source: eNCA

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