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F. W. de Klerk was born on 18 March 1936 in Mayfair, a suburb of Johannesburg. [1] His parents were Johannes "Jan" de Klerk and Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer—"her forefather was a Kutzer who stems from Austria."
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.
Dawie de Villiers Derek Keys: NP: 1991–1992 1992–1994 Minister of State Enterprises: Dawie de Villiers: NP: 1989–1994 Minister of Public Works: George Bartlett Leon Wessels Gene Louw Louis Shill: NP: 1989–1991 1991–1992 1992–1993 1993–1994 Minister of Regions and Land Affairs: Jacob de Villiers André Fourie: NP: 1989–1993 1993 ...
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: 18 March 1936 11 November 2021 15 August 1989 (aged 53) Thabo Mbeki: 18 June 1942 alive 16 June 1999 (aged 56) Kgalema Motlanthe: 19 July 1949 alive 25 September 2008 (aged 59) B. J. Vorster: 13 December 1915 10 September 1983 10 October 1978 (aged 62) Marais Viljoen: 2 December 1915
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 ...
In 1991, two years after he became president of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk, who died at the age of 85, secretly met with Nelson Mandela at Tuynhus, the South African president’s residence in ...
Marike de Klerk (née Willemse; 29 March 1937 – 3 December 2001) was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Frederik Willem de Klerk, from 1989–1994. She was also a politician of the former governing National Party in her own right.