Cape Town - Former president Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest people of the past century, former president FW de Klerk said on Friday, in a moving tribute to his fellow Nobel Peace Prize ...

Remarkably, Mandela, now 71, and limited in his exposure to this medium, having been released from prison only four years prior, undertook to challenge De Klerk on a live television forum drawing ...

De Klerk said that even in his retirement Mandela was a force for reconciliation and social justice. "I believe that his example will live on and that it will continue to inspire all South Africans to ...

Maybe because we [were] both lawyers, there was a rapport between us about the way in which we approach things." De Klerk said it had been an honour to work with Mandela in the years that followed, ...

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.

Frederik Willem de Klerk, a man who upheld an unjust system until he didn’t, who meant to obstruct reform but then freed Nelson Mandela and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with him in 1993, was the ...

During his presidency (1989-1994) and his time as deputy-president to Nelson Mandela (1994-1996), De Klerk had an opportunity to shape the views of his white compatriots, elevate the voices of ...

South African President Nelson Mandela shakes hands with F.W. de Klerk, the former president and one of Mandela's deputy presidents, after the inaugural sitting in May 1994 Alexander Joe—AFP ...