Following the death of Jan Hendrik Steyn, FW de Klerk says the former high court judge had been a "long-standing and dear" friend to him and his wife.
For the black youngsters of the 1990s, it was Madiba’s role as the head of MK that gave him the respect he needed to bring peaceful reconciliation.
President Jacob Zuma has told diplomats that Nelson Mandela had "a capacity to persuade" during negotiations with former president FW de Klerk.
Honouring Nelson Mandela, former president FW de Klerk says that most Afrikaners "have very warm feelings towards Nelson Mandela".
Former president FW de Klerk says South Africa has lost one of its founding fathers and "greatest sons".
At the 12th Europe Lecture in The Hague, former president FW de Klerk put his own spin on former president Thabo Mbeki’s "I am an African" speech.
The FW de Klerk Foundation has thanked SA for supporting the former president, who has undergone an operation to fit a cardiac pacemaker.
South Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk is to be hospitalised to receive a pacemaker, says his spokesperson.
Former president FW de Klerk is set to cut his visit to Europe short due to the ailing health of Nelson Mandela, says De Klerk’s foundation.
Former president FW de Klerk says he feels privileged to have been invited to London to attend the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
Former president FW de Klerk says he is honoured to be invited to London to attend the funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has dismissed claims by FW De Klerk that the party was responsible for the widening inequality gap in the country.
Hermann Giliomee explains how former president PW Botha’s Rubicon speech increased white South Africa’s isolation in 1985.
Former president FW de Klerk has called on all South Africans to be more politically active to combat the ANC’s national democratic revolution.
How exactly do you embrace popular opinion without going against the preconceptions of your own tribe, writes Jaco Fouche.
In his heart, De Klerk was never a reformer, but rather a practitioner of realpolitik, even if it meant unbanning the ANC, writes Charles Leonard.
The Constitution is under assault because of the successful checks and balances built into it, writes <b>FW de Klerk</b>.
Forget FW de Klerk: when it comes to militarised extremists, Constand Viljoen is the man to hate.
It was unacceptable to sing the words "shoot the boer", former president FW de Klerk was quoted as saying in a media report on Thursday.
The IFP on Friday lambasted ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema for his remarks about the IFP and former president FW de Klerk.
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/ 2 February 2010
Former president FW de Klerk on Tuesday celebrated the 20th anniversary of his historic speech at the opening of Parliament in 1990.
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/ 2 February 2010
Twenty years after announcing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, former SA president FW de Klerk commemorated the speech.
FW de Klerk warned President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday against changing the Constitution to enable the government to rein in the powers of the provinces.
Willem de Klerk, a former Rapport editor and the brother of ex-president FW de Klerk, died aged 81 in Johannesburg on Friday morning.
Affirmative action is unconstitutional and racist, former president FW de Klerk said in an interview broadcast on the internet on Thursday.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will push ahead with a court application to force the minister of home affairs to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
Health Minister Barbara Hogan has called on the government to apologise for refusing the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a peace conference.
The controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama’s attendance of the South African Peace Conference has prompted organisers to postpone the Friday event.
South African anti-apartheid icon Helen Suzman was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Johannesburg on Sunday.
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/ 5 December 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk this week requested that President Kgalema Motlanthe form a commission of inquiry to probe the arms deal.
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/ 3 December 2008
Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk have written to President Kgalema Motlanthe to request that he establish a commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
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/ 28 September 2008
Zuma has confirmed that it was Motlanthe’s beard, and his ability to stroke it in a reassuring manner, that won him the coveted position.