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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.
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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 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.
FW de Klerk is a past president of South Africa, a former leader of the Nationalist Party (the party who instituted the policy of Grand Apartheid), a former Chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. He is also a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner. [17] De Klerk founded the Foundation to: [18]
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.
The 1989 South African presidential election resulted in the election of Frederik Willem de Klerk as State President.. After the South African Constitution of 1983 came into force in 1984, the State President had been both Head of State and Head of Government, but also, in the tradition of the Westminster system, the leader of the most important party represented in the House of Assembly of ...