'Coloureds also Africans'

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's has copped backlash from the FW de Klerk Foundation over his clarifications regarding government's position on race-based terminology in official records.

- BY JASON WOOSEY

Ramaphosa said: “Our responsibility is to ensure that these terms ultimately make the differences they refer to less and less important, until they are rendered meaningless and no longer serve any purpose.

“The use of race-based terminology will always be difficult for a country like ours to accept, especially as we work to [erase] racial injustices of the past.”