Mr De Klerk served as State President until President Nelson Mandela’s inauguration on 10 May 1994. During this period he initiated and presided over the inclusive negotiations that led to the ...

Seated not far from President Mandela on that historic day in Sharpeville was Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last President of apartheid South Africa and the man whom we are assembled here to remember.

Dave Steward responds to the former NIS chief's criticism of FW de Klerk TYING MANDELA'S SHOELACES: NIËL BARNARD'S ACCOUNT OF THE SECRET REVOLUTION Niël Barnard's autobiography, Secret Revolution, ...

When he retired, after too short a period in office, he was replaced by a leading banker, Chris Liebenberg. Mandela and De Klerk agreed that the finance ministry – although allocated to the NP – would ...

Apartheid was not abolished by Nelson Mandela, though he made a fundamental contribution to doing so, but by FW de Klerk. It was De Klerk who removed from the statute book every apartheid law, ...

The discussion covered the terms of Mandela’s release and other issues related to the pending negotiations between the government and the ANC. The article concludes with a brief report of the first ...

Having played an outstanding role in our transition to democracy, he served in both the Cabinets of former President FW de Klerk and President Nelson Mandela. In his response to the death of Mr Keys, ...

When former President FW de Klerk delivered his historic speech in Parliament on the 2nd of February 1990, announcing Mandela's release, he mentioned me by name as having helped shape his decision.

"But with FW de Klerk too, you know, she didn't stand back. She embraced De Klerk but said, ‘You've got to move forward.' So no foreign leader worked harder to get Mandela out of jail. And that's just ...

8, No. 3 (March 1989), pp. 71-73. [8] Interview with F.W. de Klerk, 1 July 2007; email message from Tony Leon, 17 June 2009. [9] David Ottaway: Chained Together: Mandela, De Klerk and the Struggle to ...