Thabo Mbeki
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician and economist who served as the second president of South Africa from 1999 until his resignation in 2008. He previously served as deputy president un
Mbeki in 2022
Lovedale, where Mbeki attended high school in the 1900s
Govan Mbeki during the raid on Liliesleaf Farm, July 1963
Mbeki's brother Moeletsi in Amsterdam in 1978, accepting an award on behalf of their father. The banner calls for Govan's release.
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
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…Klerk set free a few of the ANC's top leadership at the end of 1989, among them Govan Mbeki. On 2 February 1990, Botha's successor as state president, F. W. de Klerk, announced that the ANC and other political organisations would be unbanned, and ANC exiles began to return to South Africa. At the same time that it…
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