The Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Awarded on: 1993-10-15
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Born: 1936-03-18 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Gender: male
Field: State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Biography
Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the seventh and final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. 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 1989 to 1997.