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Ex-South African leader de Klerk sorry for apartheid comment

by Associated Press
| February 17, 2020 6:30 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African president FW de Klerk on Monday apologized and withdrew his statement that the country's former harsh system of racial separation known as apartheid was not a crime against humanity.

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