Former president Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest people of the past century, former president FW de Klerk says, in a moving tribute to his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

On 14 April 1994, some 10 days before South Africa’s hugely anticipated first democratic election, Nelson Mandela, and FW de Klerk participated in a historic, 70-minute debate that was televised ...

It was an honour to work with former president Nelson Mandela in bringing democracy to South Africa, his predecessor FW de Klerk has said.

I had asked De Klerk to sketch a time frame for the transition democratic rule. Flipping the pages of my notebook, I relayed his response to Mandela. “Difficult,” de Klerk had said.

Mandela and De Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 “for the termination of the apartheid regime.” even though, at the time of their visit to Stockholm to receive the prize ...

FW de Klerk, who as president of South Africa dismantled the apartheid system he and his ancestors helped put in place, died at his home near Cape Town on November 11th. He was 85.

Mandela and de Klerk jointly won the Nobel Prize in 1993 after eradicating segregation between black and white South Africans during apartheid.

Although he released Mandela and other political prisoners and unbanned the liberation movements and their affiliates in 1990, De Klerk was a reluctant reformer.

The story of how Nelson Mandela came to work with F.W. de Klerk to end apartheid and what their relationship was like ...