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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 ...
After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the NP and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defence of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war.
After Botha's resignation in February, [2] he was replaced by Christiaan Heunis as acting State President for the remaining few months of the cabinet's term. [1] Heunis was replaced with Frederik Willem de Klerk, who was elected leader of the National Party on 2 February [3] and inaugurated as State President on September 20.
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 ...
Instead, the NP's parliamentary caucus selected as leader education minister F. W. de Klerk, who moved quickly to consolidate his position within the party as a reformist, while hardliners supported Botha. In March 1989, the NP elected De Klerk as state president but Botha refused to resign, saying in a television address that the constitution ...
F. W. de Klerk shaking hands with ANC leader Nelson Mandela at the World Economic Forum in 1992. In the midst of rising political instability, growing economic problems and diplomatic isolation, Botha resigned as NP leader, and subsequently as State President in 1989. He was replaced by F. W. de Klerk in this capacity. Although conservative by ...
Frederik Willem de Klerk: NP: 1989–1994 Minister of Foreign Affairs: Pik Botha: NP: 1989–1994 Minister of Development and Cooperation: Gerrit Viljoen Roelf Meyer: NP: 1989–1992 1992–1994 Minister of Education: Gerrit Viljoen: NP: 1980–1989 Minister of Finance: Barend du Plessis Derek Keys: NP: 1989–1992 1992–1994 Minister of ...
On 2 February 1990, Botha's successor as state president, F. W. de Klerk, announced that the ANC and other political organisations would be unbanned, and ANC exiles began to return to South Africa.