Jan de klerk

De Klerk stated that within the party, he "never formed part of a political school of thought, and I deliberately kept out of the cliques and foments of the enlightened and conservative factions in the party. That same year, while giving an interview to US journalist Richard Stengel, de Klerk was asked whether South Africa had turned out the way he envisioned it back in Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between the Xhosa and Zulu people , although de Klerk later denied sanctioning such actions.

He died from complications of the disease in his sleep at his home in Cape Town on 11 November , at the age of The former SA president's first wife was Marike de Klerk. That month, he also released a number of elderly anti-apartheid activists then imprisoned, including Walter Sisulu.

The decision shocked several of his six fellow Afrikaner cabinet colleagues; Pik Botha , for example, was left without a job as a result. He was offered the chair of Administrative Law at Potchefstroom University, but declined the position when he was elected Member of Parliament for Vereeniging in November De Klerk was also chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, headquartered in London, which he set up in , an organisation which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance in the form of democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law.

Nelson Mandela as President. De Klerk, who was on a brief visit to Stockholm , Sweden, to celebrate the year anniversary of the Nobel Prize foundation, immediately returned to mourn his dead ex-wife.

He declined, citing protests at the university. After university, de Klerk pursued a legal career, becoming an articled clerk with the firm Pelser in Klerksdorp. Redirected from F. Interesting to note, in , during the first South African's multi-racial democratic elections, his party lost to the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela.

De Klerk's candidature was successful and in November he was elected to the House of Assembly. As education minister between and , he upheld the apartheid system in South Africa's schools, and extended the department to cover all racial groups.