He received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1993 alongside Nelson Mandela.
Frederick De Klerk, South Africa's last white president, died of cancer on November 11.
Eight years after the death of the man he released from prison on February 11, 1990, and who, thanks to him, was to become the country's first black president, invested on May 10, 1994, in the presence of 45 heads of state and government!
In the meantime, Frederick De Klerk had put an end to the apartheid regime, by a solemn vote in June 1991.
It has therefore been thirty years since South Africa can no longer accuse white domination and segregation of being the causes of its misfortunes.
Mandela ruled for five years, until 1999, and he will have had five successors until the current one, Cyril Ramaphosa (elected on February 15, 2018).
All members of the ANC (African National Congress), the black nationalist party.
However, it has just suffered a "historic setback" in the municipal elections of November 1.
He reunited
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