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- De Klerk is sworn in as South Africa's acting State President on August 15, 1989, in Pretoria, South Africa, after PW Botha resigned.
www.cnn.com/2021/11/11/africa/fw-de-klerk-death-intl/index.htmlFW de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid leader who freed ...
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Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997. Born in Johannesburg to an influential Afrikaner family, de Klerk studied at Potchefstroom University before pursuing a career in law.
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 December 1989, de Klerk met with the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela. On 2 February 1990, de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
Nov 11, 2021 · 11 November 2021. AFP. FW de Klerk was a major force in South Africa's transition from racist state to fully fledged democracy. While the tide of history would probably have made the change...
Nov 11, 2021 · De Klerk is sworn in as South Africa's acting State President on August 15, 1989, in Pretoria, South Africa, after PW Botha resigned. John Parkin/AP
May 14, 2018 · F. W. de Klerk was state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. He pointed his country in a new direction and was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid (an official policy that virtually eliminated black African participation in government in South Africa).
Sep 21, 1989 · Frederik W. de Klerk was sworn in Wednesday for a five-year term as president of South Africa and pledged to move swiftly to meet some demands of anti-apartheid leaders by releasing black...
