Frederik Willem de Klerk (də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as the seventh and final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
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Frederik Willem de Klerk 18 March 1936 Johannesburg, South Africa
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11 November 2021 (aged 85)
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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