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F W De Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid ruler, dies at 85

De Klerk died at his home in Cape Town earlier on Thursday after having been diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2021

F.W. De Klerk, South Africa
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Mike Cohen | Bloomberg
Frederik Willem de Klerk, the former South African president who negotiated the end of apartheid with Nelson Mandela after spending years upholding the system of White minority rule, has died. He was 85. 

De Klerk died at his home in Cape Town earlier on Thursday after having been diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2021. 

After taking power in 1989, De Klerk removed a ban