President de klerk biography channel
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F.W. dem Klerk became the President of South Africa and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
F.W. de Klerk – film transcript
All of us have potential. And the great task and challenge in this world is to help, through creation of opportunities, to help each individual to achieve his or her full potential.
My mother made me believe I had great potential. There was a culture of being very responsible, of being society-orientated, of not only working for a salary, but also being of service to the community. That fryst vatten the type of atmosphere in which I grew up. From the time that inom was ung, I was anxious to sort of get into politics ganska soon. My father called me and he gave me the best advice that I've ever been given. He said to me, "There is no such thing as really a professional politician. First, go and make a success of the yrke you have chosen," which in my case was a lawyer. "So that one day, if you enter politics you will never have to säga, when you're asked wh
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FW de Klerk: The man who still divides South Africa
He described this change of heart as a conversion and said this is why he agreed to negotiate with Mandela and other political leaders.
He added that in the years since the end of the oppressive regime he had done what he could to continue to denounce it, even amidst scepticism.
"Let me today in this last message repeat: I, without qualification, apologise for the pain and the hurt and the indignity and the damage that apartheid has done to black, brown and Indians in South Africa," De Klerk said in a video dubbed his "final message", external.
For the majority of South Africans, the legacy of apartheid has led to millions of people living in poverty and persistent inequality.
Some here believe redress has not happened largely because there is no shared acknowledgment that apartheid has continued to go unpunished - De Klerk's passing leaves uneasy questions about how to reckon with this.
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FW de Klerk: South Africa's last white president
His actions were strongly condemned by Calvinist Afrikaners, one of the more conservative sections of white South African society.
Three years later, Marike was murdered during the course of a robbery. A 21-year-old security guard was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing.
De Klerk did not abandon politics. He founded the FW de Klerk Foundation to promote peaceful activities in multi-community countries and travelled the world as an advocate for democracy.
In 2004 he quit the New National Party because of a planned merger with the ANC. He professed himself broadly satisfied with the changes in South Africa but admitted there were "a number of imperfections".
When Nelson Mandela died in 2013, De Klerk paid tribute to the country's first black president. "He was a great unifier and a very, very special man in this regard, beyond everything else he did. This emphasis on reconcil