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Documentary on F. W. de Klerk; The FW de Klerk Foundation; Video of F. W. de Klerk's November 2005 visit to Richmond Hill High School on Google Video Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Photos & Recordings of his visit to the College Historical Society in March 2008; Ubben Lecture at DePauw University (includes video, audio and photos)
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 ...
Field of achievement Ref. Nelson Mandela: Platinum 2002 Liberation struggle, national reconciliation and nation-building, and global peace and justice F. W. de Klerk: Gold 2002 Peace, national reconciliation and nation-building Allan McLeod Cormack † Gold 2002 Science and CT scanning: Basil Schonland † Gold 2002
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.
When F. W. de Klerk became president in 1989, he was able to build on the previous secret negotiations with Mandela. The first significant steps towards formal negotiations took place in February 1990 when, in his speech at the opening of Parliament , de Klerk announced the repeal of the ban on the ANC and other banned political organisations ...
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. “I, without ...
The FW de Klerk Foundation is a nonpartisan organisation that was established in 1999 by former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk. [ 1 ] It engages in activities related to "multi-community" countries and aims to support and nurture South Africa 's democracy.
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged ...