FW de Klerk passes away aged 85
He is survived by his wife Elita, his children Jan and Susan and his grandchildren.De Klerk was the country's last apartheid head of state, ruling from September 1989 to May 1994, when South Africa held it's first democratic elections in April. He was then appointed as one of the country's two deputy presidents, along with Thabo Mbeki, as Nelson Mandela become South Africa's democratically elected president.
Last year De Klerk was quoted as saying, in an interview with the SABC, that “there is a difference between calling something a crime. Like genocide is a crime. Apartheid cannot be, for instance, compared with genocide. There was never genocide.”
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