Twenty years ago today, FW de Klerk addressed South Africa’s Parliamentand stunned the world. Ivan Fallon reveals the extraordinary story behind apartheid’s end Monday 1 February 2010 FW de Klerk: The day I ended apartheid…
The two opponents who went on to share the Nobel Peace Prize had great political and personal differences FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela’s relationship was marked by mutual resentment Photo: GETTY IMAGES By David Blair…
30 JAN 2015 00:00 MAX DU PREEZ The motives of the ‘last apartheid president’ can only be truly understood within a 20-year context. Was Frederik Willem de Klerk a brave,…
On 11 February 1990, the then president of South Africa, FW de Klerk, took the fateful decision to release Nelson Mandela, the charismatic hero of the struggle against apartheid. Twenty years on, he talks about…
South Africa’s last white president has been praised for his role in ending apartheid but questions linger over atrocities committed on his watch Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk in 1996. Photograph: Juda Ngwenya/Reuters David…
F W de KLERK State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1990 he opened negotiations with previously outlawed anti-apartheid organizations. De Klerk was appointed the Second Vice President in President Mandela’s cabinet….
