F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's Last Apartheid-Era President, Dies At 85
F.W. de Klerk, the last white president of apartheid-era South Africa whose collaboration with Nelson Mandela on the peaceful transition to a multiracial democracy and market-oriented economy won both men the Nobel Peace Prize, died at his home in Cape Town at the age of 85. De Klerk had announced in March that he had been diagnosed with mesothelioma.
