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...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...
...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...
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...