Frederik Willem de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at the age of 85, NPR reported.
De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for De Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday.
De Klerk was a controversial figure in South Africa where many blamed him for violence against Black South Africans and anti-apartheid activists during his time in power, while some white South ...
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