7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Last president of apartheid South Africa, then deputy to Mandela. De Klerk oversaw the legal dismantling of white-minority rule and the shift to universal suffrage between 1989 and 1996.
Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
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