Former state president FW de Klerk died at his home in Cape Town on Thursday at the age of 85.
His foundation said in a statement:"It is with the deepest sadness that the FW de Klerk Foundation must announce that former president FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma
cancer."Referred to as"the last white ruler of South Africa," De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with Nelson Mandela"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa."
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