De Klerk's Nobel Peace Prize medal stolen from his home
The gold medal for the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly by de Klerk with Mandela.
Unidentified persons seized from the home of former South African President FWD Klerk valuable jewelry, including the personal "18-karat" gold medal for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he had previously received jointly with leader Nelson Mandela, in 1993 for their efforts to end the apartheid regime. .
This came in a statement made by a spokesman from the "De Klerk" Foundation to the British Broadcasting Corporation "BBC South Africa" without giving further details, but local media reported that they had captured scenes of the robbery of De Klerk's house in Cape Town, adding The police did not make any arrests and did not recover the medal.
Speaking to the local news site News24, de Klerk's widow, Elita, said that she came home from a trip abroad to find her home insurance was broken, and by going to the safe to find it was open and no longer had any of her jewelry, whether she had bought it. Or that she inherited from her mother.
De Klerk became president in 1989, but handed power to Mandela five years later, ushering in the end of apartheid white-minority rule in South Africa and the beginning of the democratic era.
Johannesburg - agencies
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