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Johannes "Jan" de Klerk, DMS (22 July 1903 – 24 January 1979 [1]) was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk , the last apartheid State President of South Africa . As a member of the National Party , de Klerk served as interim State President for nine days following the retirement of Jacobus Johannes Fouché in 1975 ...
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." [2] He was his parents' second son, having a brother, Willem de Klerk, who was eight years his senior. [1]
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.
Pages in category "Frederik Willem de Klerk" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Frederik Willem de Klerk: NP: 1989–1994 Minister of Law and Order: Adriaan Vlok Hernus Kriel: NP: 1989–1991 1991–1994 Minister of Prisons: Adriaan Vlok: NP: 1991–1994 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries: Kraai van Niekerk: NP: 1990–1994 Minister of Planning and Provincial Affairs: Hernus Kriel Leon Wessels: NP: 1989–1991 1991 ...
They were first used in a speech by prof. Willem de Klerk (son of Jan de Klerk and brother of future State President of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk) on 6 October 1966, exactly a month after the assassination of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd. [16] In his speech, De Klerk distinguished between verligte, verkrampte, and positiewe ("positive") Afrikaners.
Van Schalkwyk succeeded Frederik Willem de Klerk as leader of the National Party in 1996, and reorganised it on 8 September 1997 as the New National Party in a bid to distance the party from its apartheid past. He remained the NNP's leader until its dissolution on 9 April 2005.
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]