/ 27 July 1999

MARIKE TO MARRY

MARIKE DE KLERK, former wife of ex-president FW de Klerk, became engaged to a Johannesburg businessman on Sunday. Beeld reports that the two plan to tie the knot in three weeks’ time De Klerk and former president De Klerk’s 40-year-long marriage was officially brought to an end on October 30 1998 in the Cape High Court. Divorce proceedings were instituted by former president De Klerk after he publicly declared his love for Elita Georgiades. In court he said his marriage had irretrievably broken down.