A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reform
Stamp in identity document of a white South African recording their participation in the 1992 apartheid referendum
Vote 'No" poster from the referendum
Durban Sign 1989
F. W. de Klerk
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Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head
1992 South African apartheid referendum
…The referendum was limited to white South African voters, who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948. The result of the election was a large victory…
De Klerk in 1993
de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, January 1992
de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, near the close of negotiations, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to receive jointly the Liberty Medal, July 1993
The chair of the TRC, Desmond Tutu, was frustrated that de Klerk did not take responsibility for the actions of the state security services in the early 1990s