South Africa: Frederik de Klerk "embodied the bitter folds of the white minority"
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Former South African President Frederik de Klerk and his wife Elita Georgiades at a Klerk Foundation conference in Johannesburg in July 2012. Getty Images - Gallo Images
By: Florent Guignard Follow
Former South African President Frederik de Klerk died this Thursday, November 11 at the age of 85.
He was the last president under the apartheid regime.
De Klerk was a pure product of the racist apartheid regime, whose downfall he nevertheless precipitated by freeing Nelson Mandela, with whom he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Back on his career with Thierry Vircoulon, coordinator of the Observatory for Central and Southern Africa of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and specialist in South Africa.
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