Word: klerk
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Nobel For South Africans Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize for working ''to peacefully end apartheid'' in South Africa...
...There were times he washed his hands of people - and times when, like so many people of great charm, he allowed himself to be charmed. Mandela initially developed a quick rapport with South African President F.W. de Klerk, which is why he later felt so betrayed when De Klerk attacked him in public...
...Apartheid didn’t start in 1948. It wasn’t started by my people, the Afrikaaners,” F. W. de Klerk said in remarks at the Institute of Politics last night...
...Klerk followed that statement with one of regret...
...Klerk, who led South Africa from 1989 to 1994, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years for challenging apartheid policies but later freed by de Klerk...