Exactly 30 years ago today FW de Klerk, who had been president of South Africa for barely five months, made an announcement that broke political deadlock and led the country out of centuries of ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk. Personal Birth date: March 18, 1936 Death date ...

De Klerk grew up in a family of prominent Afrikaner politicians. Was a member of the National Party (NP), a party made up of Afrikaners and English-speaking Whites (The NP did have some non-White ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk. Personal Birth date: March 18, 1936 Death date ...

World News Frederik Willem de Klerk Fast Facts (CNN) — Here’s a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk.

De Klerk grew up in a family of prominent Afrikaner politicians. Was a member of the National Party (NP), a party made up of Afrikaners and English-speaking Whites (The NP did have some non-White ...

In a video message recorded shortly before his death, the last white president of South Africa, Frederik Willem de Klerk, said he was sorry.

Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on March 18th, 1936 to a family steeped in the politics of the Afrikaners, descendants of the Dutch and Huguenot settlers who arrived in southern ...

Frederik Willem de Klerk, a man who upheld an unjust system until he didn’t, who meant to obstruct reform but then freed Nelson Mandela and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with him in 1993, was the ...

South Africa’s last white minority president, Frederik Willem de Klerk, who negotiated the end to apartheid and ushered in black majority rule died last week at 85 years with a curious ...