F. W. de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk is a South African politician who served as the countrys State President from September 1989 to May 1994. He was the seventh and last head of state of South Africa under the apartheid era. De Klerk was also leader of the National Party from February 1989 to September 1997.

De Klerk was born in Johannesburg, in the then Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa, to Johannes Jan de Klerk and Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer her forefather was a Kutzer who stems from Austria. He came from a family environment in which the conservatism of traditional white South African politics was deeply ingrained. His paternal greatgrandfather was Senator Johannes Cornelis Jan van Rooy. His aunt was married to NP Prime Minister J. G. Strijdom. In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whitesonly elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerks father, Johannes Jan de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975. His brother Willem is a liberal newspaperman and one of the founders of the Democratic Party. De Klerk graduated from Monument High School in Krugersdorp. De Klerk graduated in 1958 from the Potchefstroom University with

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