Die woordkeuse van F.W. de Klerk in sy toespraak by die 25ste herdenking van sy politieke misvatting van 2 Februarie 1990, is waarskynlik sonder dat hy dit so bedoel het, so beskrywend van die betekenis van sy optrede op daardie dag, dat ons dit nie beter kan stel nie.
FW sê dat dit sy voorreg was om daardie dag deur die venster te spring om apartheid van die tafel af te vee. In Johannes 10 vers 1 word dié handeling só beskryf: JOHANNES 10:1
“VOORWAAR, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, wie nie by die deur in die skaapstal ingaan nie, maar van ’n ander kant af inklim, hy is ’n dief en ’n rower. “
Die Afrikanervolk is op daardie dag beroof van die politieke beheer oor ons land, van ons eie skole, eie woongebiede, van wet en orde, van beskaafde norme en ons selfrespek. Op die vooraand van die algehele ineenstorting van Suid Afrika se kragvoorsieningsnetwerk verklaar hierdie rower: “While South Africa today is a proud member of the international community, there are some problems, said De Klerk.
This includes rampant crime, corruption in high places, a hugely under-performing education system and a significant HIV/Aids problem.”
Asof hy nou regtig geen aandeel het in die verval wat sy “vensterspringery” tot gevolg gehad het nie, bevlek die bloed van ons vermoorde volksgenote die bodem van ons land en is hospitale en huise vol van fisies en geestelik verminkte siel en liggaam van letterlik duisende Afrikaners en ander wat hy wou “vrywaar” van ‘n bloedbad, het hy homself probeer verontskuldig.
Dit is nou reeds 25 jaar van die uiterste beproewing en gruwelikste verguising waarmee sy hande bevlek is, maar die Afrikanervolk sal hom oorleef en die verontregting wat hy oor hierdie volk gebring het te bowe kom omdat God ons nog altyd daartoe bygestaan het. Mag hy tot sy sinne kom voordat hy sterwe sodat die klad op sy voorsate, genadiglik het hy nie bloedverwante nasate nie, opgehef kan word. Intussen sal dit goed wees indien hy maar sy uitsprake uit die media probeer hou.
It was a privilege to help make the change: De Klerk
2015-02-03 11:19
Donwald Pressly, News24
Former president FW de Klerk (AFP) 2015-02-02 16:02
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Cape Town - It had been his privilege to “jump through the window” of political change in South Africa and deliver the reform speech on 2 February 1990 which swept away apartheid, former president FW de Klerk said on Tuesday.
At the start of a conference at the FW de Klerk Foundation in Cape Town on upholding a constitutional democracy in South Africa the former president said the fall of the Soviet Union and its loss of appetite to fuel wars in southern Africa helped significantly to open the that political window.
Tuesday also marks the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking speech.
In the speech in Parliament, he had emphasised the principles of an inclusive multi-party democracy, universal franchise, “no domination”, and minority and individual rights.
“(It was) my privilege to jump through that window and open negotiations on a new Constitution.”
While South Africa today is a proud member of the international community, there are some problems, said De Klerk.
This includes rampant crime, corruption in high places, a hugely under-performing education system and a significant HIV/Aids problem.
The former president singled out current President Jacob Zuma for criticism.
It was “patently indefensible” to have spent R246m on “security upgrades” at Nkandla, said De Klerk.
The parole of Shabir Shaik - one of the president’s “friends” - showed that some were “not as subject to the rule of law as others”.