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- F.W. de Klerk (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, South Africa—died November 11, 2021, Cape Town) was a politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country.
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Sep 13, 2024 · F.W. de Klerk, politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace.
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Nov 11, 2021 · For some in South Africa, FW de Klerk was a great statesman - the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the system of legalised racism which he inherited.
In 1993, De Klerk and Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts at reform in South Africa. After the 1994 elections, de Klerk was appointed the Second Vice President in President Mandela’s cabinet.
De Klerk was a controversial figure among many sections of South African society. He received many awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Mandela) for his role in dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa.
On 20 September 1989 Frederick Willem de Klerk was sworn in as State President of the Republic of South Africa. Four months later in a series of moves, perhaps the boldest in South African political history, he was to set South Africa free of its past.
Nov 11, 2021 · In 1990 South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk decided to release Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement, who had been in prison since 1963. Following the release, the two politicians worked together to bring an end to the policy of racial segregation.
Nov 12, 2021 · De Klerk was a longtime National Party functionary who had succeeded the ferocious P.W. Botha as the head of the racist apartheid government of South Africa. It was the first time they had...
