Word: klerk
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...made some reforms, giving Asians and mixed-race citizens--but not blacks--a limited voice in government. But he also oversaw the detention of tens of thousands of antiapartheid activists. Despite global pressure, he would not free Mandela, who was finally released in 1990, a year after F.W. de Klerk replaced Botha. And he refused to appear before the postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, saying, "I am not prepared to apologize." Still, he was remembered kindly last week by Mandela (above, with Botha in 1995), who noted the "steps he took to pave the way" for a free South Africa...
...KLERK 1993 Former South African President, one of 1993's four "peacemakers...
...them with world leaders; all four of them at peak, frantically busy moments in their lives; and all four of them in about a week. On Dec. 7, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and managing editor Jim Gaines met over dinner in Oslo, where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were to receive their Nobel Peace Prizes three days later, and considered the problem. Mandela's people told Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod that they might be able to give TIME an hour or so early the next morning, but De Klerk could set aside only 20 minutes in Oslo...
Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk: Two men who do not much like each other agree to remake the country they share...
Conversations with Mandela and De Klerk...