Uri Friedman: Why did the South African government, in the mid-1970s, decide to embark on a nuclear-weapons program? - F. W. de Klerk

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Uri Friedman: Why did the South African government, in the mid-1970s, decide to embark on a nuclear-weapons program?

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About F. W. de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President 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 conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997.

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Native Name: Frederik Willem de Klerk
Alternative Names: Frederick W. De Klerk Frederick De Klerk F W de Klerk FW de Klerk
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I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.

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