de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.

de Klerk noted that he is of Dutch descent, with an Indian ancestor.

Born in Johannesburg to Johannes " Jan " de Klerk and Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer-" her forefather was a Kutzer who stems from Austria ".

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

de Klerk matriculated from Monument High School in Krugersdorp.

de Klerk graduated in 1958 from the Potchefstroom University with BA and LL. B degrees ( the latter cum laude ).

Following graduation, de Klerk practised law in Vereeniging in the Transvaal.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

Frederik de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992.

As Minister of National Education, de Klerk was a supporter of segregated universities, and as a leader of the National Party in Transvaal, he was not known to advocate reform.

In Mandela: The Authorised Biography Sampson accuses de Klerk of permitting his ministers to build their own criminal empires.

In 1992, de Klerk held a whites-only referendum, with the result being an overwhelming " yes " vote to continue negotiations to end apartheid.

In 1990, de Klerk gave orders to end South Africa's nuclear weapons programme ; the process of nuclear disarmament was essentially completed in 1991.

Though he could easily have won the fight against the wounded and weakened Ivanhoe, de Bois-Gilbert lowers his sword and allows himself to be slaughtered, thus saving the life of his beloved Rebecca.

It is this channel, together with the dredged channels in the North Sea, Maasgeul and Eurogeul, that allows ships like the MS Berge Stahl and MV Vale Rio de Janeiro to enter Europoort.

In Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at the east side of the country, the tropical weather allows a Brazilian-type Carnival, with agropuations of people called " Comparsas " dancing traditional songs in matching uniforms.

Some researchers, such as Philip Lieberman, Dennis Klatt, Brant de Boer and Kenneth Stevens using computer-modeling techniques have suggested that the species-specific human tongue allows the vocal tract ( the airway above the larynx ) to assume the shapes necessary to produce speech sounds that enhance the robustness of human speech.

In exchange, SNCF allows passengers on these flights to book rail service between Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy ( near Paris ) and Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon Part-Dieu, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poiters, Rennes, Tours, and Valence with their airline.

German law allows persons of German descent living anywhere in the world the right to return to Germany and claim German citizenship ( Aussiedler / Spätaussiedler " late emigrants ";: de: Aussiedler ).

The European Union de minimis " state aid " regulation allows for aid of up to € 200, 000 to be provided from public funds to any business enterprise over a rolling three-year period.

This is achievable partially because of the Marines mission adaptability, flexibility, philosophy, shared culture, history, and overall esprit de corps, which allows for near seamless interoperability.

The tidal ranges in the Río de la Plata are small, but its large width allows for a tidal prism important enough to dominate the flow regime despite the huge discharge received by the tributary rivers.

The " Académie de peinture et sculpture " is also responsible for the Académie de France in the villa Médicis in Rome ( founded in 1666 ) which allows promising artists to study in Rome.

This allows the rapid and local growth factor-mediated activation of cellular functions, without de novo synthesis.

This relaxed substrate specificity requirement allows it to methylate unusual structures like DNA slippage intermediates at de novo rates that equal its maintenance rate.

Confucius judged a good ruler by his possession of de (" virtue "): a sort of moral force that allows those in power to rule and gain the loyalty of others without the need for physical coercion ( Analects 2. 1 ).

In Brazil, the Sem Parar / Via-Fácil system allows customers to pass through tolls in more than 1, 000 lanes in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.

More general questions of this kind on an arbitrary differentiable manifold are the subject of de Rham cohomology, that allows one to obtain purely topological information using differential methods.

While this allows TVA to air more network programming than any other Canadian network ( the basis for its longtime slogan, Le sens de la télé or " The Meaning of Television "), it also means that CFTM usually can't interrupt its programming for news or weather bulletins in Montreal without interrupting the entire network.

The latter allows Chapulín to activate his Antenitas de Alta Velocidad ( High-Speed Antennaes ), dramatically increasing his speed and allowing him to fight on equal terms with fast foes ( to the point of casually deflecting bullets ).

* 1545: Oratio Philatelis Peripatetici in senatulo hominum scholasticorum de decreto conventus, quo pagi civibus adimi permittuntur, habita ... ( The Discourse Of A Truthful Peripatethic spoken among the learned men about the parliamentary decree, which allows country estates to be taken away from townfolk, Polish title Mowa Prawdomówcy Perypatetyka o postanowieniu sejmu zezwalającym na odbieranie mieszczanom wiejskich posiadłości, wypowiedziana w kole ludzi uczonych )

According to The Economist, the Ley Federal de Radio y Televisión " raced through Congress confirming the country's longstanding television duopoly " and constituted a " giveaway of radio spectrum and a provision that allows broadcasting licenses to be renewed more or less automatically ".

* Canal du Rhône with Sète: maintained, it allows river tourism between the Rhône, the étang de Thau and the Canal du Midi.

Roger Griffin, using an ideal type definition of fascism which includes " populist ultra-nationalism " and " palingenesis " ( heroic rebirth ), argues that the Nouvelle Droite draws on such " fascist " ideologues as Armin Mohler and Julius Evola in a way that allows Nouvelle Droite ideologues such as de Benoist to claim a " metapolitical " stance, but which nonetheless has residual " fascistic " ideological elements.

The PPP contract was awarded in March 2003 to the EuroLink Consortium ( SIAC Construction Ltd and Cintra-Concesiones de Infraestrucutras de Transporte S. A .) and allows for them to collect tolls for 30 years from that date.

* 1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.

* Leana de Bruin ( born 1977 ), South African and New Zealand netball player

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

In Mexico, there are two dishes called the couscous taco ( taco de cuscús ) and couscous burrito ( burrito de cuscús ), which consists of the addition of couscous to a traditional taco or burrito respectively, similar in fashion to a North African pita.

The atrocity was reportedly condemned strongly by South African president Thabo Mbeki and Winnie Mandela, among others, who openly spoke in favour of Marike de Klerk.

First-generation gens de couleur were typically the offspring of a male, French slaveowner and an African slave chosen as a concubine.

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* 1972 – Giniel de Villiers, South African racing driver

* 1936 – Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* 1971 – Mariaan de Swardt, South African tennis player

The term New Guinea was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, because of a resemblance between the islands ' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast.

South African comedian Casper de Vries produced the soap opera parody Haak en Steek, based on South African soaps like Egoli: Place of Gold.

The maritime town of Lagos, Portugal, Europe, was the first slave market created in Portugal ( one of the earliest colonizers of the Americas ) for the sale of imported African slaves – the Mercado de Escravos, opened in 1444.

Bartolomé de Las Casas a 16th-century Dominican friar and Spanish historian participated in campaigns in Cuba ( at Bayamo and Camagüey ) and was present at the massacre of Hatuey ; his observation of that massacre led him to fight for a social movement away from the use of natives as slaves and towards the importation of African Blacks as slaves.

* The South African poet Roy Campbell wrote an elegiac poem dedicated to the isle of Tristan de Cunha in 1930.

* February – African and Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation ( UAMCE ) ( Union Africaine et Malgache de Coopération Économique ).

* Diogo de Azambuja ( 1432 – 1518 ) Portuguese explorer of the African coast.

* February 17 – AB de Villiers, South African Cricketer

* December – African and Malagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation ( OAMCE ) ( Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique ) is established.

* August 3-August 4 – Millions of black South Africans participate in a general strike called by the African National Congress to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk.

* December 19 – State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk dismisses or suspends 23 military officers, including six generals, sho were suspected of unauthorized activities designed to disrupt negotiations with the African National Congress.