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S. Africa's de Klerk dies of cancer
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died. He was 85.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority
F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s White minority rule, has died at the age of 85.
South Africa’s former president Frederik Willem de Klerk has died at the age of 85. As it’s last white minority leader he steered his country towards the end of apartheid - for which De Klerk and Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.
De Klerk shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, and ceded the presidency to him in 1994 after Black South Africans were allowed to vote. But he's remained a controversial figure there.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority
Despite playing a key role in the reversal of the racist apartheid policies, de Klerk remained a controversial figure for his failure to protect Black South Africans from violence.
Former president FW de Klerk, the man who freed Nelson Mandela, has died. The last apartheid president passed away at the age of 85 after a battle with cancer.
By Sarah Dean, CNN Former South African president and Nobel peace prize winner FW de Klerk has died at 85, the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Thursday. The last leader of apartheid South Africa shared the peace prize in 1993 with Nelson Mandela, who was released from prison by de Klerk, and would go
FW de Klerk, South Africa's last white president, dismantled the apartheid regime that brought him to power when he freed Nelson Mandela from prison and negotiated a path to democracy.
A prominent Afrikaner, he vehemently defended the separation of the races but later stunned his deeply divided nation, and the wider world, by reconsidering South Africa’s racist ways.
While he shared a Nobel Peace Prize with his successor Nelson Mandela for "laying the foundations" of a democratic South Africa, De Klerk's legacy remains marred by controversy.
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