The BBC's Today program interviewed FW De Klerk (Audio) about recent events in South Africa this morning. 
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He is asked, "where will the hope for political change come from?"
De Klerk is "not loosing sleep". He puts his trust in the courts and the new top leadership of the ANC he says who is showing encouraging signs.
He condemned the xenophobic violence but says the root causes is unemployment and crime.
Mr. De Klerk is a bit too sanguine and simplistic in his analysis me thinks. But I digress.
Asked whether the seeds of this violence lays in the legacy of apartheid, De Klerk retorts that apartheid was developmental and that such a claim would be a great over simplification.
Asked whether if apartheid ended earlier it would have made for a smoother transition in South Africa, De Klerk claimed that would not have happened because of the ANC links with and the risk of expansionist Soviet Communism.
Friday, May 30, 2008
De Klerk BBC Radio Interview
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