South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, dead at 85

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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who negotiated a peaceful transfer of power to a Black-led government under Nelson Mandela, died on Thursday aged 85 after a battle with cancer, his foundation said. De Klerk won praise worldwide for his role in scrapping apartheid and he shared the Nobel […]

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