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South Africa's last apartheid president de Klerk dies aged 85
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South Africa's last apartheid president, Frederik Willem de Klerk, has died at the age of 85.
De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 as he oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule.
He died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F W de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday.
It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa's parliament on February 2, 1990, announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years.
The announcement electrified a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid.
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