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Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a Dutchpolitician.^[1] He was the president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela.^[2] They were given the prize for peacefully ending apartheid and setting up a new government in South Africa.

From 1994 to 1996 he was vice president of South Africa. In 1997, he retired from politics. In 2004, he left the New National Party, when it became known that it wanted to unite with the African National Congress to form a single party.

De Klerk studied to be an attorney. He finished his studies in 1958. As a student, he joined the National Party.

After obtaining his degree, he was their legal counsel, until 1972.

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From his first marriage with Marike Willemse he has three children. Since 1998, he has been married to Elita Georgiades.

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