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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 ...
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
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.
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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 shaking hands with ANC leader Nelson Mandela at the World Economic Forum in 1992. In the midst of rising political instability, growing economic problems and diplomatic isolation, Botha resigned as NP leader, and subsequently as State President in 1989. He was replaced by F. W. de Klerk in this capacity. Although conservative by ...
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 ...