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Frédérik de Klerk, the last president of South Africa under apartheid, died Thursday, November 11.
Founder of the political party that set up the racist Apartheid regime, Frédérik de Klerk was the pure product of a conservative family. However, he will remain the one who put an end to this regime, but also the one who freed Nelson Mandela. “What we have accomplished proves to the world that the most complex conflicts can be resolved”, testified the former president of South Africa.
Born in 1936 and a lawyer by training, he entered politics at the age of 36. Two years later, he entered the government and he remained there for eleven years before taking the head of the country in 1989. The economic and political situation of the country deteriorated sharply and he decided to initiate reforms. He breaks the state of emergency and Nelson Mandela is released. Frédérik de Klerk also receives a Nobel Prize with Nelson Mandela.
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