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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.
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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.
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 ...
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.
The 1989 South African presidential election resulted in the election of Frederik Willem de Klerk as State President.. After the South African Constitution of 1983 came into force in 1984, the State President had been both Head of State and Head of Government, but also, in the tradition of the Westminster system, the leader of the most important party represented in the House of Assembly of ...
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]
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