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 ...

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, ...

The FW de Klerk Foundation's actions are a betrayal of the memory of President Nelson Mandela, whose strong commitment to reconciliation saw him concede to share the Nobel Peace Prize with de Klerk in ...

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 ...

A sense of resolve, courage, bravery, persistence, are all the definitions of a strong leadership. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk – the two courageous men who led South Africa through a very ...

Richard Stengel, his ghostwriter, makes the point that Mandela was a great persuader and a great charmer. He was ... Stengel used the word ‘seductive'. In the political sense." You write that FW de ...

It was also on 10 December 1993 that Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their contribution to South Africa’s relatively peaceful transition from white ...

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 ...

So let us, please, conclude with a toast to FW de Klerk for, in Mandela’s words, “it was he who made peace possible.” Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.