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Johannes "Jan" de Klerk, DMS (22 July 1903 – 24 January 1979 [1]) was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk , the last apartheid State President of South Africa . As a member of the National Party , de Klerk served as interim State President for nine days following the retirement of Jacobus Johannes Fouché in 1975 ...
Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) acting: 9 April 1975 19 April 1975 10 days National Party — 3 Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs (1903–1978) 19 April 1975 21 August 1978 (died in office) 3 years, 124 days National Party: 1975 — Marais Viljoen (1915–2007) acting: 21 August 1978 10 October 1978 50 days National Party — 4 Balthazar Johannes ...
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The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) 6 June 1969 January 1976 6 years, 6 months National Party: 10 Marais Viljoen (1915–2007) 23 January 1976 18 June 1979 3 years, 146 days National Party: 11 Jimmy Kruger (1917–1987) 19 June 1979 31 December 1980 1 year, 195 days National Party: Post abolished (1 January 1981 – 20 May 1994)
Johannes de Klerk, Acting State President (1975) Nico Diederichs, State President (1975–1978) Marais Viljoen, Acting State President (1978) Balthazar Johannes Vorster, State President (1978–1979) Marais Viljoen, State President (1979–1984) P. W. Botha, State President (1984–1989) F. W. de Klerk, State President (1989–1994)
Johannes de Klerk: Education, arts and sciences and information 1966–1967 John Vorster: Johannes de Klerk: National education 1968–1969 John Vorster: Johannes Petrus van der Spuy: Education and training Ferdinand Hartzenberg: Education and training 1979–1982 PW Botha: Gerrit Viljoen: National education 1980–1989 PW Botha: F. W. de Klerk
De Klerk's first language was Afrikaans and the earliest of his distant ancestors to arrive in what is now South Africa did so in the late 1680s. [3] De Klerk had a secure and comfortable upbringing, and his family had played a leading role in Afrikaner society; [4] they had longstanding affiliations with South Africa's National Party. [5]