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Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March – 11 November ) was a Dutchpolitician.^[1] He was the president of South Africa from to In , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela.^[2] They were given the prize for peacefully ending apartheid and setting up a new government in South Africa.

From to he was vice president of South Africa.

Johannes de klerk: F.W. de Klerk, politician who as president of South Africa (–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the Nobel Prize for Peace.

In , he retired from politics. In , he left the New National Party, when it became known that it wanted to unite with the African National Congress to form a single party.

De Klerk studied to be an attorney. He finished his studies in As a student, he joined the National Party. After obtaining his degree, he was their legal counsel, until From his first marriage with Marike Willemse he has three children.

Since , he has been married to Elita Georgiades.

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Biography

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FW de Klerk was born in Johannesburg in He is the son of Johannes de Klerk () and Hendrina Cornelia de Klerk (), who died just four months before the death of his former daughter Marike Willemse and his brother to Wimpie de Klerk (). His family, whose name comes from the French surname "Le Clerc," "Le Clercq" or "de Clercq" is of Huguenot origin.

He settled in the country in , a few months after the Revocation of the Nantes edict, and participated in various events in the history of Afrikaner. Their ancestors participated in the Grand Trek on the train led by Piet Retief to get rid of the British rule. In , three members of the Klerk family were also killed with Retief in King Kraal of Zulu, Dingane.

Later, during the Second Boer War (), the grandfather FW of Klerk was captured twice by the British before being a founding member of the National Party in , alongside James Barry Hertzog. According to genealogist Keith Meintjies and confirmed by FW by Klerk, the latter is also in accordance with Krotoa (Eva), a female Khoi, who served as interpreter for the Dutch colonists during the founding of the Colony of the Head.

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Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (/ də ˈklɜːrk, də ˈklɛərk / də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans: [ˈfriədərək ˈvələm də ˈklɛrk]; 18 March – 11 November ) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from to and as deputy president from to

Member of the Reformed Dutch Church, FW by Klerk, is the youngest son, Jan Klerk, the head of the school and minister with various portfolios () and Senate chairman (), the nephew of JG Strijdom, the head of the South African Government until His older brother Wimpie de Klerk is a political analyst and co-founder of the Democratic Party in

High School in Krugersdorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, FW by Klerk has a honors degree from the University of Potchefstroom in In he married Marike Willemse (), with whom he will raise three children adopted ).

The couple, F. W. and Marike de Klerk, divorced in

During university studies, he joined the National Party and became a member of Broderbond.

A lawyer in Vereeniging, south of Transvaal, refused in the public law seat at Potchefstroom University to run for general elections.

On 19 March , de Klerk announced that had been diagnosed with mesothelioma.^[3] Eight months later on 11 November, he died from the disease in his sleep at his home in Cape Town at the age of ^[4][5][6]

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