De Klerk: a complex man with a self-serving streak

14 November 2021 - 00:00 By Sunday Times Editorial

FW de Klerk, who died this week aged 85, will be remembered as the last apartheid president, who helped implement the policy as a senior cabinet minister for decades but later freed Nelson Mandela and set in motion a chain of events that led to SA’s first democratic elections in 1994. ..

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