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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 ...
The FW de Klerk Foundation is a nonpartisan organisation that was established in 1999 by former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk. [ 1 ] It engages in activities related to "multi-community" countries and aims to support and nurture South Africa 's democracy.
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 ...
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South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged ...
Earlier in 1989, the State President P.W. Botha had been replaced by F.W. de Klerk as head of the ruling National Party. De Klerk led his party to victory in the whites-only election on 6 September and was due to be inaugurated as State President a week after the march. The march polarised support within the government.
F. W. de Klerk; B. Battle of Ventersdorp ... Speech at the Opening of the Parliament of South Africa, 1990 This page was last edited on 25 November 2023, at 09:24 ...