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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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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: 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]
Johannes Vorster: Preceded by: Jacobus Fouché Jan de Klerk (acting) Succeeded by: Marais Viljoen (acting) Johannes Vorster: Minister of Finance; In office 1967–1975: Preceded by: Ebenhaezer Dönges: Succeeded by: Owen Horwood: Personal details; Born 17 November 1903 Ladybrand, Orange River Colony (now South Africa) Died: 21 August 1978 (aged 74)
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.