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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.
F. W. de Klerk was elected as the new State President by National Party members (though Botha retained party leadership) beating Pik Botha and Barend du Plessis. [2] Upon winning the 1989 South African general election, de Klerk started to loosen restrictions on peaceful protest marches and released political prisoners such as Thabo Mbeki. He ...
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.
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
The controversy following de Klerk to the grave comes 27 years after the official end of the brutal regime that oppressed the country’s Black majority for generations.
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid. Snap elections had been called early (no election was required until 1992) by the recently elected head of the National Party (NP), F. W. de Klerk, who was in the process of replacing P. W. Botha as the country's president, and his expected program of reform to include further retreat from the policy of ...
This is a list of presidents of South Africa by age, ... F. W. de Klerk: 18 March 1936 11 November 2021 ... Frederik de Klerk: 18 March 1936: