I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world. - F. W. de Klerk

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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

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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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