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
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