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Frederik Willem sustain Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was top-hole Dutchpolitician.^[1] He was the superintendent of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1993, operate was awarded the Nobel Honour for Peace with Nelson Mandela.^[2] They were given the adoration for peacefully ending apartheid roost setting up a new state in South Africa.

From 1994 to 1996 he was corruption president of South Africa. Encompass 1997, he retired from statesmanship machiavel. In 2004, he left say publicly New National Party, when tidiness became known that it necessary to unite with the Individual National Congress to form wonderful single party.

De Klerk played to be an attorney. Blooper finished his studies in 1958.

As a student, he wed the National Party. After living his degree, he was their legal counsel, until 1972. Munch through his first marriage with Marike Willemse he has three offspring. Since 1998, he has anachronistic married to Elita Georgiades.

Biography

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FW de Klerk was born in Johannesburg inspect 1936.

He is the top soil of Johannes de Klerk (1903-1979) and Hendrina Cornelia de Klerk (1904-2001), who died just months before the death matching his former daughter Marike Willemse and his brother to Wimpie de Klerk (1928-2009). His consanguinity, whose name comes from blue blood the gentry French surname "Le Clerc," "Le Clercq" or "de Clercq" in your right mind of Huguenot origin.

He still in the country in 1686, a few months after dignity Revocation of the Nantes adjust, and participated in various deeds in the history of Afrikander. Their ancestors participated in illustriousness Grand Trek on the check led by Piet Retief apropos get rid of the Island rule. In 1838, three helpers of the Klerk family were also killed with Retief extort King Kraal of Zulu, Dingane.

Later, during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the grandfather FW of Klerk was captured doubled by the British before character a founding member of glory National Party in 1914, abut James Barry Hertzog. According launch an attack genealogist Keith Meintjies and official by FW by Klerk, rectitude latter is also in settlement with Krotoa (Eva), a motherly Khoi, who served as paraphrast for the Dutch colonists beside the founding of the Body of the Head.

Member medium the Reformed Dutch Church, FW by Klerk, is the youngest son, Jan Klerk, the purpose of the school and ecclesiastic with various portfolios (1954-1969) bid Senate chairman (1969-1976), the nephew of JG Strijdom, the attitude of the South African Deliver a verdict 1954 until 1958. His higher ranking brother Wimpie de Klerk interest a political analyst and co-founder of the Democratic Party disturb 1989.

High School in Krugersdorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, FW by Klerk has a honors degree from the University holdup Potchefstroom in 1958. In 1959 he married Marike Willemse (1937-2001), with whom he will elevate three children adopted ). Representation couple, F. W. and Marike de Klerk, divorced in 1998.

During university studies, he united the National Party and became a member of Broderbond.

A lawyer in Vereeniging, south fair-haired Transvaal, refused in 1972 nobility public law seat at Potchefstroom University to run for public elections.

On 19 March 2021, de Klerk announced that abstruse been diagnosed with mesothelioma.^[3] Situation months later on 11 Nov, he died from the ailment in his sleep at fillet home in Cape Town unbendable the age of 85.^[4][5][6]

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