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We're not doing what we do because of sanctions. We're doing what we do because we believe it is right. - F. W. de Klerk
" "We're not doing what we do because of sanctions. We're doing what we do because we believe it is right.
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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
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F W de Klerk
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History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.
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