Here's a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk. De Klerk grew up in a family of prominent Afrikaner politicians. Was a member of the ...

Johannesburg — Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa's last white minority president who ruled over the final years of apartheid's demise between 1989 and 1994, has died. In a statement released on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former president in 1997 (AP) The younger son of a schoolteaching father who later became a leading Afrikaner nationalist ...

De Klerk is remembered most for leading South Africa's transition from white-minority rule to the country's first multi-racial elections in 1994 - Copyright AFP/File ...

CAPE TOWN - Members of Parliament have mixed views on late former President FW de Klerk’s 1990 unbanning speech. Some say it was a big leap forward in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to ...

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, has died at the age of 85. As a government minister, de Klerk defended and enforced segregation and white minority rule. But in 1990, facing ...

JOHANNESBURG – Liberator of Nelson Mandela? Or a leader responsible for racist murders? South Africa is engrossed in debate over the legacy of apartheid's last president, F.W. de Klerk, who died last ...

De Klerk grew up in a family of prominent Afrikaner politicians. Was a member of the National Party (NP), a party made up of Afrikaners and English-speaking Whites (The NP did have some non-White ...