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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.
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.
Internationally, Thatcher wrote to congratulate de Klerk for making the move. The President of the United States George H. W. Bush responded positively to the news but needed to hear more before he would lift American sanctions on South Africa. [7] De Klerk would later announce Mandela's release on 11 February 1990. [14]
De Klerk, who was the head of South Africa's white minority government until 1994, was scheduled to speak on July 1 at an American Bar Association (ABA) virtual event on issues such as minority ...
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 ...
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 ...
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid. Snap elections had been called early (no election was required until 1992) by the recently elected head of the National Party (NP), F. W. de Klerk, who was in the process of replacing P. W. Botha as the country's president, and his expected program of reform to include further retreat from the policy of ...
NELSON Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Frederik Willem de Klerk "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations ...