Frederik Willem de Klerk is a South African politician. He was the president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela. They were given the prize for peacefully ending apartheid and setting up a new government in South Africa. From 1994 to 1996 he was vice president of South Africa. In 1997, he retired from politics
Now here's what made De Klerk a truly great African; abandoning tradition and doing what was right, not by his own tribe or the indigenous people of South African but for the country as a whole. Without his actions, we would never have known Nelson Mandela like we do thus qualifying him along side Mandiba as the two greatest south African leaders of all time
The lessons we must draw from the story of this great man is that we must never stay conservative over traditions; Traditions were created by men & men are doomed to flaws
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