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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 ...
State President of South Africa: 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 ...
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged ...
Special pages; Permanent link; ... F. W. de Klerk; B. ... Speech at the Opening of the Parliament of South Africa, 1990 This page was last ...
On Nov. 11, the last overseer of South African apartheid, F.W. de Klerk, died. He spent his last moments nestled […] The post The 3-year-old girl F.W. de Klerk held captive. 34 years of justice ...
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
The march resulted in concessions from the apartheid cabinet headed by FW de Klerk, following years of violent clashes between anti-apartheid protestors and the police, and was the first such event to include elected world government functionaries. It was considered the "last illegal march" at the time, and went ahead without a major confrontation.