Double standards for defending De Klerk

THERE have been lots of people (read “white” people) who have come to the rescue of former leader Dr FW de Klerk.

Some have criticised Imraan Buccus for unnecessarily digging up the past. (“Unpacking the role of De Klerk – an accidental icon” published in The Mercury, February 4).

Others have pointed to the good that De Klerk achieved.

Just a thought, now: How many white people would suggest that we also bury the past in so far as former president Jacob Zuma is concerned and refrain from digging into past

archives of the shenanigans of that president? EBRAHIM ESSA Durban