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 ...

Image via X: @elonmusk The FW De Klerk organisation was founded in memory of Apartheid’s last president, who, along with the late Nelson Mandela and the ANC party, sought a peaceful transition ...

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, former President Nelson Mandela uttered the following words, which constitute the perfect riposte to FW De Klerk and his Foundation and all other white ...

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.

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 ...

According to an article in New Age on 9 April, Mr Keith Khoza, the ANC's ‘Head of Communications', is reported to have said that F W de Klerk was "poisoning the South Africans with his utterances" ...

Mr de Klerk’s contribution to South Africa’s transition to democracy cannot be overstated. His decision, within a year of taking over the presidency from PW Botha in 1989, to unban liberation ...

Mr Mandela and others were released. This was a risk, a gamble, a leap into the unknown. Arguably, Mr de Klerk had little choice. His actions nevertheless required immense political courage, for which ...