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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 ...
F. W. de Klerk was born on 18 March 1936 in Mayfair, a suburb of Johannesburg. [1] ... — de Klerk's speech to Parliament, February 1990 [21] On 2 February 1990, ...
In his speech at the Opening of Parliament on 1 February 1991, State President F. W. de Klerk announced that the Land Acts and the Group Areas Act would be repealed. A white paper on the topic was tabled on 12 March. The bill was passed by Parliament on 5 June, signed by President de Klerk on 27 June, and came into force on 30 June. [1]
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 ...
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.
When F. W. de Klerk became president in 1989, he was able to build on the previous secret negotiations with Mandela. The first significant steps towards formal negotiations took place in February 1990 when, in his speech at the opening of Parliament , de Klerk announced the repeal of the ban on the ANC and other banned political organisations ...
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 ...
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