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    Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (/də ˈklɜːrk, də ˈklɛərk/ də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans: [ˈfriədərək ˈvələm də ˈklɛrk]; 18 March 1936 – 11 November...
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    Johannes "Jan" de Klerk, DMS (22 July 1903 – 24 January 1979) was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk, the last apartheid State...
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    Psychology at University of Pretoria. Willemse met her future husband, F. W. de Klerk, at Potchefstroom University (where she was studying for a degree in...
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    The cabinet of Frederik Willem de Klerk was in office from 14 August 1989 to 10 May 1994....
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    leave the presidency. In F. W. de Klerk's 1992 apartheid referendum, Botha campaigned for a No vote and denounced De Klerk's administration as irresponsible...
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    de Klerk (born 1965), South African sprinter Faf de Klerk (born 1991), South African rugby player Michel de Klerk (1884–1923), Dutch architect F. W....
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    Meyer served in the governments of three successive presidents: P. W. Botha, F. W. de Klerk, and Nelson Mandela. After resigning from the National Party in...
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    as deputy president. Along with Mbeki, the previous state president, F. W. de Klerk, also served as deputy president in his capacity as the leader of the...
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    succeeded as president later that year by F. W. de Klerk. Despite his initial reputation as a conservative, de Klerk moved decisively towards negotiations...
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    and 1980s, the process accelerated in 1990, when the government of F. W. de Klerk took a number of unilateral steps towards reform, including releasing...
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    aims. In the 1989 South African general election, the party under F. W. de Klerk's leadership declared that it intended to negotiate with the Black South...
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  • Poitier and Michael Caine. The film documents the negotiations between F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to end South African apartheid, and was nominated...
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    beginning his sentence, De Kock has accused several members of the apartheid government, including former State President F. W. de Klerk, of permitting C10's...
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    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...
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    On 2 February 1990, the State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk delivered a speech at the opening of the 1990 session of the Parliament of South...
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    for publishing the location of his home. On 11 November 2021, the day F. W. de Klerk died, Malema tweeted, "Thank you God", followed by five dancing figure...
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    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...
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  • The FW de Klerk Foundation is a nonpartisan organisation that was established in 1999 by former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk. It promotes...
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  • at Pretoria Central Prison on 14 November 1989. In 1990, President F. W. de Klerk declared a moratorium on the execution of capital sentences. In June...
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    deputy president. Along with Thabo Mbeki, the last apartheid president, F. W. de Klerk also served as deputy president, in his capacity as the leader of the...
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    previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F. W. de Klerk lost more than half of their former support base. The liberal Democratic...
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  • last known woman executed in the country. In November 1989, president F W de Klerk ordered a nationwide moratorium, stopping executions until further notice...
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    pressure and fears of racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid,...
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    "Behind Every Man: D.F. Malan and the Women in his Life, 1874-1959". Retrieved 4 September 2021. Korf, Lindie (2008). "Behind Every Man: D.F. Malan and the...
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    Minister of Finance from 1992 to September 1994, in the cabinets of F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Born in Johannesburg, he attended the University...
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    twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually...
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    as additional front companies, possibly for money laundering. When F. W. de Klerk became president in 1990, he ordered that production of the chemicals...
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  • Prize in 1993 alongside President F.W. de Klerk. Two African laureates, Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1978 and F.W. de Klerk of South Africa in 1993, were presidents...
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    was thus eligible for a post of Vice President to incumbent president De Klerk. The new National Assembly's first act was to elect Nelson Mandela as President...
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    Transvaal from 1987 to 1996. He retired from politics in 1996 when F. W. de Klerk withdrew the National Party from the government of national unity. While...
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