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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 ...
Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) acting: 9 April 1975 19 April 1975 10 days National Party — 3 Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs (1903–1978) 19 April 1975 21 August 1978 (died in office) 3 years, 124 days National Party: 1975 — Marais Viljoen (1915–2007) acting: 21 August 1978 10 October 1978 50 days National Party — 4 Balthazar Johannes ...
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De Klerk's first language was Afrikaans and the earliest of his distant ancestors to arrive in what is now South Africa did so in the late 1680s. [3] De Klerk had a secure and comfortable upbringing, and his family had played a leading role in Afrikaner society; [4] they had longstanding affiliations with South Africa's National Party. [5]
Johannes de Klerk: Education, arts and sciences and information 1966–1967 John Vorster: Johannes de Klerk: National education 1968–1969 John Vorster: Johannes Petrus van der Spuy: Education and training Ferdinand Hartzenberg: Education and training 1979–1982 PW Botha: Gerrit Viljoen: National education 1980–1989 PW Botha: F. W. de Klerk
Jacobus Johannes Fouché (1898–1980) 1968: 10 April 1968 9 April 1975 6 years, 364 days National Party: Vorster — Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) — 9 April 1975 19 April 1975 10 days National Party: Vorster 12 Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs (1903–1978) 1975: 19 April 1975 21 August 1978 (died in office) 3 years, 124 days National Party ...
Marais Viljoen, DMS (2 December 1915 – 4 January 2007) was the last ceremonial State President of South Africa from 4 June 1979 until 3 September 1984. Viljoen became the last of the ceremonial presidents of South Africa when he was succeeded in 1984 by Prime Minister P. W. Botha, who combined the offices into an executive state presidency.
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.