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Monday, April 25, 2005
A former South African minister has been in Guyana sharing his experiences of the apartheid era, in the hopes that it will help the racially-divided Caricom nation heal its more than 40-years of wounds.
Mr Roelf Meyer is in Guyana under the the United Nations Development Programme's Social Cohesion Project and Guyana's Ethnic Relations Commission.
He served in the apartheid government of President F.W. De Klerk and in the Unity Government of President Nelson Mandela.
The former South African Minister says while he is not in Guyana to broker a peace accord, he identifies a strong civil society as one of the keys to effecting positive change.
Mr. Meyer said if Guyana is to heal the rift that exists between East Indian and black Guyanese, then closure must be sought. But he stopped just short of suggesting a Truth Commission as was used at the end of the apartheid era.
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