Frederick Willem (F.W. ) DeKlerk
On September 2, 1989, four days before South Africa's racially segregated parliament held its elections, Burg Street in Cape Town rained purple. A police water cannon with purple dye was turned on thousands of Mass Democratic Movement supporters who poured into the city in an attempt to march on South Africa's Parliament.
The Nationalist Party under P.W. Botha was under increasing pressure both locally and internationally to abolish the system of apartheid. Strict repression of the black majority was still taking place however with a collapsing economy, many international trade sanctions, and organised political attacks on government institutions, apartheid was nearing its end.
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Frederik Willem de Klerk was President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994.
Charles Robert Swart was the last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and became the first President of the Republic of South Africa from the date of its creation. Source: pages 157-165 Suid-Afrikaanse Geskediedenis in Beeld by Antony Preston - Bison Books Ltd, Kimbolton House 117A Fulham Rd, London SW3 6RL under the original title "Pictorial History of Southern Africa" 1989
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F. W. de Klerk is a former president of South Africa. He was in office from August 15, 1989 until May 9, 1994. He was part of the driving force to end the Apartheid in South Africa.
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There was no national election in the U.S. in 1989. George Bush became president in 1989 after winning the presidential election held in 1988.