He was 85. De Klerk was South Africa’s last president from the apartheid-era, a time where rights were awarded according to skin color, while Nelson Mandela sat in jail for 27 years, before ...

Within a month of that meeting, however, Botha had been replaced by FW de Klerk, who collected much of the credit when Mandela was released from jail in 1990 and who opened formal talks with the ANC.

But while he was feted globally and shared the Nobel Peace prize with the revered Mandela, de Klerk earned only scorn from many Blacks outraged by his failure to curb political violence in the ...