F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
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- Born in
- Johannesburg
- Educated at
- North-West UniversityGoodenough CollegePotchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Peace Prize🏆 Princess of Asturias Awards🏆 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize🏆 Order of Good Hope🏆 Order of Mapungubwe
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Trending topics shown first"Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an…"
"anctions should be reserved, if we think international, for extremely serious situations."
"We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice."
"I prefer to live in South Africa because it's a wonderful country; because I've been there for 300 years."
"You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's …"
"Nigeria, it's a beautiful country with a great potential and I believe that in that part of the continent, Nigeria, once it sorts out its own problems, have a crucial role to play, like South Africa h…"
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