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Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (/ d ə ˈ k l ɜːr k, d ə ˈ k l ɛər k / də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans: [ˈfriədərək ˈvələm də ˈklɛrk]; 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
F. W. de Klerk was elected as the new State President by National Party members (though Botha retained party leadership) beating Pik Botha and Barend du Plessis. [2] Upon winning the 1989 South African general election, de Klerk started to loosen restrictions on peaceful protest marches and released political prisoners such as Thabo Mbeki. He ...
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85.
History; Election: 1989 election: Legislature terms: 4 years, 8 months and 26 days: ... Frederik Willem de Klerk: NP: 1989–1994 Minister of Law and Order: Adriaan Vlok
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged ...
South African President F. W. de Klerk in May 1990. Nelson Mandela (right) gives one of his first press interviews after his release from prison in February 1990. On 2–4 May 1990, the ANC met with the South African government at the Groote Schuur presidential residence in Cape Town , in what were touted as the first of several "talks about ...
Oppressors will always try to rewrite history to make themselves seem better. They’ll justify slaughter by calling the victims “savages” The post Apartheid president de Klerk portrayed as ...