Frederik Willem De Klerk

South Africa’s last apartheid president, Frederik Willem De Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights.

According to his foundation, he withdrew because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate.

De Klerk, who was the head of South Africa’s white minority government until 1994, was scheduled to speak on issues such as minority rights, racism and the rule of law at an American Bar Association (ABA) virtual event.

But his participation unleashed a barrage of criticism from South African opposition parties and activists, who called on ABA to cancel …