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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 ...
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.
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged ...
1990 in South Africa saw the official start of the process of ending Apartheid. President of South Africa, eid.President F.W. de Klerk unbanned organisations that were banned by the government including the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Pan Africanist Congress.
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When F. W. de Klerk became president in 1989, he was able to build on the previous secret negotiations with Mandela. The first significant steps towards formal negotiations took place in February 1990 when, in his speech at the opening of Parliament , de Klerk announced the repeal of the ban on the ANC and other banned political organisations ...
FW de Klerk argued in a TV interview the brutalities of apartheid had been misunderstood and misappropriated. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...