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'Apartheid reparations peanuts'
16/03/2001 14:58 - (SA)
Parliament - The Pan Africanist Congress believed the R800 million the
government had set aside as reparations for victims of apartheid
was "peanuts", PAC deputy leader Motsoko Pheko said on Friday.
Speaking in the National Assembly during the first reading debate
on the Budget, he said: "I am compelled to say that all our
martyrs, including Comrade Chris Hani, are turning in their graves.
"It is treacherous in the extreme, that after our martyrs have paid
a supreme price to end a crime against humanity, our people are
still treated as if they are sub-humans."
Pheko said reparations of 132 billion gold marks had been paid to
Jews for crimes against humanity committed against them.
In September 1987, the United States' House of Representatives had
voted more than a billion dollars to the Japanese as reparations
for crimes against humanity committed against them.
The South Koreans had also received substantial amounts of money as
reparations for similar crimes against them, Pheko said.
"In South Africa, a crime against humanity against Africans... has
been treated perfidiously.
"Our international law right regarding a crime against humanity has
been treated frivolously.
"We have been treated differently from other victims of a crime
against humanity in other parts of the world."
The R800 million for the crime of apartheid was "an insult to our
intelligence", Pheko said. - Sapa
- SAPA
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