Fredrick Willem De Klerk
NELSON MANDELA
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Frederick Willem de Klerk is a South African politician who served as the country's state president from September 1989 to May 1994.
Klerk focused on ending apartheid and establishing a racially integrated democracy, meeting with several black leaders,including Nelson Mandela, who became president of the ANC in 1991. that same year, following arduous negotiations between black and white leaders, de Klerk passed legislation that repealed discriminatory laws in South Africa. Nelson was a former South African anti-apartheid revolutionary. He served as a president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Also, because of his protests against apartheid Nelson was imprisoned for 26 years. He was released by former president Fredrick Willem de Klerk. He became South Africa's first black president in 1994.
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