He continued the negotiations with Mandela and the ANC liberation movement, which had begun in secret. But when he realized that the apartheid system was leading to both economic and political bankruptcy, he put himself at the head of a radical change of course. Both as a lawyer, as a parliamentarian, and as a member of the government he had stood out as a firm upholder of white privilege. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is convinced that, with President De Klerk and Nelson Mandela, South Africa has two such leaders. When de Klerk took office as President in 1989, no one expected him to play a key part in the termination of apartheid. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela. He was the president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. It was for his participation in this peace process that de Klerk was awarded the Peace Prize in 1993. Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936 in Johannesburg) is a South African politician. FW de Klerk Foundation Communications Officer: Megan Dick, Ms Chief Executive Officer: Jacques du Preez, Adv Executive Director: David Steward, Mr Explore. Following the release, the two politicians worked together to bring an end to the policy of racial segregation. Frederik Willem de Klerk goes into the annals of history as the President of the last white minority government who was bold enough to lead white South Africa. The imbroglio over former president FW de KlerkвЂ™s real feelings and his true state of mind, deep down inside, about apartheid, continues to rumble onward, even if the man himself has increasingly become nearly invisible in the countryвЂ™s contemporary political life. In 1990 South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk decided to release Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement, who had been in prison since 1963. The four ages of Frederik Willem de Klerk.

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