Vlok apology 'not good enough'
28/08/2006 12:18  - (SA)  

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Why Vlok washed Chikane's feet 'Vlok's apology is a watershed' Vlok apologises for atrocities

Johannesburg - The SA Council of Churches has welcomed an apology by apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok, but said on Monday it was insufficient.

General Secretary Eddie Makue commended Vlok, who apologised to former SACC General Secretary Frank Chikane for atrocities committed by police during his tenure.

However he said Vlok and his former government colleagues still owed the South African people a full confession.

The gesture by Vlok - who washed Chikane's feet in an act of contrition - was no substitute for full disclosure, said Makue.

"Many high-ranking members of the former government failed to participate unreservedly in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process. As a result, we are left with many unanswered questions concerning responsibility for gross human rights violations during the apartheid years."

Makue gave the example of the 1988 bombing of Khotso House, the SACC's national office.

He urged Vlok and "others with knowledge of these crimes" to demonstrate their repentance by identifying those who were responsible and apologising to the victims.

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