Among the many awards FW de Klerk received was one for political ... Very soon after Mr de Klerk came to power, the Berlin Wall collapsed. When Mr de Klerk made his famous speech he said 1989 would go ...

"FW must explain about his famous 'checks and balances'…" or "De Klerk was naïve…" and even "He sold us down the river…" are sentiments regularly expressed in letter columns or by Afrikaans opinion ...

Best Nelson Mandela Quotes: Nelson Mandela ... along with South African President F.W. de Klerk, for their efforts to end apartheid peacefully. Mandela's struggle against apartheid spanned ...

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In a video message recorded shortly before his death, the last white president of South Africa, Frederik Willem de Klerk ... obituaries led with the famous shot of de Klerk and Nelson Mandela ...

So, in some ways, it was fitting that F.W. de Klerk recorded a statement watched the world over after his death from mesothelioma on Nov. 11 at age 85. Frederik Willem de Klerk, a man who upheld ...

wrote that F.W. was "too strongly convinced that racial grouping is the only truth, way and life" to ever break from apartheid.[i] Then came his famous speech at the opening of parliament on February ...

Few recent historical figures in South Africa provoke more divergent views than Frederik Willem (FW ... apartheid ideologue De Klerk will be most remembered for his famous speech delivered ...

After being brought up as an Afrikaner nationalist, Mr de Klerk rose through the ranks of the National Party, in which he initially was regarded as a staunch supporter of apartheid. Early in his ...