The Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded nearly 30 years ago to South Africa’s last white president, Frederik de Klerk, was stolen from his home in Cape Town in April, his foundation said on Wednesday.
“The Nobel prize belonging to FW de Klerk was stolen from his home earlier this year,” said Brenda Steyn, one of the organization’s employees, who clarified that the theft was reported to the police.
According to Steyn, the former president’s widow, Elita Georgiades, suspects that a former employee of the house has stolen the object made from recycled gold. 18 carat.
Frederik de Klerk, president from 1989 to 1994, who died of cancer last year at the age of 85, shared the award in 1993 with liberation hero Nelson Mandela.
Precipitating the fall of the racist apartheid regime, de Klerk announced the release of Mandela, then the regime’s enemy number one, in an unexpected speech in parliament in 1990.
Acclaimed as a non-foreigner for his decisive role in dismantling the segregationist regime that, however, he has supported throughout his political life, de Klerk morreu has never been formally asked to apologize for the atrocities committed by the white power, something that has been criticized by many voices in the country. South Africa.
In 2020, de Klerk publicly declared that ‘apartheid’ was not a crime against humanity, and then, in the midst of the installed controversy, apologized for the statement.
Source: TSF
