F. W. de Klerki
Born 18 Mar 1936

De Klerk unbanned the ANC, released Nelson Mandela in 1990, won a whites-only referendum in 1992 to continue negotiations and handed power to Mandela after the 1994 election. The settlement came out of years of sanctions, internal resistance and economic decline as well as his own choices. He…

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