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NPA not investigating De Klerk
30/07/2007 16:26 - (SA)
Pretoria - Former president FW de Klerk is not being investigated for crimes committed during the apartheid era, National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi said.
"There is no formal investigation of Mr De Klerk," Lesufi said.
This comes after former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock reportedly asked to meet with the NPA to discuss what he said was "new evidence" linking De Klerk to apartheid era crimes.
De Klerk last week denied that he had ever condoned apartheid era murders or other gross violations of human rights.
"I have not only a clear conscience, I am not guilty of any crime whatsoever," he told a media briefing in Cape Town. Mthatha raid
On Sunday he defended his decision to authorise a raid in Mthatha in 1993 in which five people were killed.
The FW de Klerk foundation said in a statement: "Although the operation was tragically botched, Mr De Klerk himself acted in his capacity as head of government with due deliberation and care and in complete compliance with national and international law."
The foundation was reacting to a Sunday Times report in which De Kock accused De Klerk of ordering the raid.
De Kock is serving a 212-year sentence for apartheid atrocities.
The foundation said recent reports on the raid against a supposed Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) target were not a "revelation" and did not provide evidence that De Klerk ordered illegal murders.
The newspaper reported that Mzwandile Mfeya, 12, Sandiso Yose, 12, twins Samora and Sadat Mpenduko, 16, and Thando Mtembu were killed during the raid in October 1993.
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