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After his death, a video message from de Klerk was released from the FW de Klerk Foundation, apologising "without qualification" for the harm caused from apartheid and pleading that the government and all South Africans would embrace the constitution in a balanced manner while also promoting economic growth, guarding the independence and ...
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. De Klerk was murdered in her Cape Town home in 2001.
English: Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of South Africa 1989–1994, visiting Switzerland 1990. Date: Taken on 22 May 1990: Source:
The controversy following de Klerk to the grave comes 27 years after the official end of the brutal regime that oppressed the country’s Black majority for generations. “I, without ...
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.
De Klerk's term saw the dismantling of the apartheid system and negotiations that eventually led to South Africa's first racially inclusive democratic elections on 27 April 1994. In a statement on the death of Botha in 2006, De Klerk said: "Personally, my relationship with P. W. Botha was often strained.
Pieter Willem Botha (1916–2006) — 3 September 1984 14 September 1984 11 days National Party: 1984: 14 September 1984 14 August 1989 (resigned) 4 years, 334 days — Jan Christiaan Heunis (1927–2006) — 19 January 1989 15 March 1989 55 days National Party: 16 Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936–2021) — 14 August 1989 20 September 1989 37 ...
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 ...