Nov 12, 2021 · The story of how Nelson Mandela came to work with F.W. de Klerk to end apartheid and what their relationship was like

How de Klerk managed that process, and in the scope of his vision, freed Nelson Mandela from 27 years imprisonment and transformed South Africa into a constitutional democracy, is his …

In 1990 South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk decided to release Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement, who had been in prison since 1963. Following the release, …

Although there had been gestures towards negotiations in the 1970s and 1980s, the process accelerated in 1990, when the government of F. W. de Klerk took a number of unilateral steps …

Nov 7, 2025 · F.W. de Klerk, politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in …

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the …

During most of the meeting each of us cautiously sized up the other. Mandela raised the issue of the National Party’s commitment to group rights and said that he thought that this was a …

Beyond the party pressures, a legacy of tension and mistrust between De Klerk and Mandela flared especially in relation to issues of violence and security.

He was South Africa's president from 1989-1994 and a co-recipient with Mandela of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 15 — Nelson Mandela and President F. W. de Klerk today shared the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the apartheid state and collaborating in the quest …