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F. W. de Klerk

State President of South Africa from to

In this article, the surname is de Klerk, not Klerk.

Frederik Willem de KlerkOMG DMS (də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans:[ˈfriədərəkˈvələmdəˈklɛrk]; 18 March – 11 November ) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from to and as deputy president from to As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage.

Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from to

Born in Johannesburg to an influential Afrikaner family, de Klerk studied at Potchefstroom University before pursuing a career in law.

Joining the NP, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid, a