South Africa’s last apartheid president, Frederik Willem de Klerk, is dead.
He died on Thursday, according to his foundation in a statement.
The statement said the former South African leader died at his home in Fresnaye in the early hours of Thursday.
FW de Klerk was born on 18 March 1936. He graduated from Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in 1958.
He was a South African politician, who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
He was last South Africa’s apartheid head of state, the era of white-minority rule.
He handed over to Nelson Mandela, the first black South African President in 1994, and agreed to be his Deputy President.
