Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran after 15 years in exile ...

There is neither racial genocide nor land confiscation occurring in South Africa, according to the FW de Klerk Foundation.

He was 85. De Klerk was South Africa’s last president from the apartheid-era, a time where rights were awarded according to skin color, while Nelson Mandela sat in jail for 27 years, before ...

Of note is My Moments With a Legend, an archive of photographs and video of people who came into contact with Mandela. The video starts with F W de Klerk, the last president of apartheid era South ...

1989 - The new South African president, FW de Klerk, unveils sweeping reforms including the unbanning of the ANC and the unconditional release of Nelson Mandela. 1989 - How Mandela called all the ...

19. Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, sharing the award with South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk for the “peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the ...

Within a month of that meeting, however, Botha had been replaced by FW de Klerk, who collected much of the credit when Mandela was released from jail in 1990 and who opened formal talks with the ANC.

But while he was feted globally and shared the Nobel Peace prize with the revered Mandela, de Klerk earned only scorn from many Blacks outraged by his failure to curb political violence in the ...

Hawke's Bay lawyer Satchie Govender, formerly the head of an investigation team for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, shown with former presidents FW De Klerk and Nelson Mandela.