Mandela, he said, objected, saying, "We need more time to prepare." "Let me tell you a story," de Klerk told me from his home in the scenic area of Paarl in the southwestern corner of the nation.

Of note is My Moments With a Legend, an archive of photographs and video of people who came into contact with Mandela. The video starts with F W de Klerk, the last president of apartheid era South ...

1964-- Mandela and seven others sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, off Cape Town. 1990-- President F.W. de Klerk lifts ban on the African National Congress and frees Mandela.

White South African president F.W. de Klerk freed Mandela in 1990 and ended apartheid in 1991. For this, de Klerk and Mandela shared the Nobel Peace prize.

Once free, Mandela worked with South Africa's white president, F.W. de Klerk to end those policies, knocking down the pillars of segregation one at a time. Three years after his release from ...

He was 85. De Klerk was South Africa’s last president from the apartheid-era, a time where rights were awarded according to skin color, while Nelson Mandela sat in jail for 27 years, before ...

October 15, 1993 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Mandela. November 17, 1993 – De Klerk and other leaders ratify a new constitution, which ends the apartheid system. December 10 ...