F.W. de Klerk: Post Presidency
de Klerk
F.W. de Klerk’s post presidency involved being an author, divorce, remarriage, and establishing charitable foundations. In 1994, de Klerk led his party’s campaign into the first all-race election where the ANC party took up the majority of the seats in the new National Assembly. After that, de Klerk joined a government of national unity led by Nelson Mandela, taking the job as second deputy president. He later quit the job of second deputy president in 1996. In 1997, de Klerk resigned as head of the National Party and he announced his retirement from politics. In 1998, he and his wife, Marike de Klerk, of 38 years had a divorce after discovering he had an affair with Elita Georgiades, the wife of Tony Georgiades. After his divorce, he remarried to Elita Georgiades. On December 4th, 2001, Marike was found stabbed and violently strangled in her Cape Town apartment. F.W. de Klerk came back to mourn his ex-wife’s death after a brief visit to Stockholm, Sweden to celebrate 100 years of the Nobel Peace foundation.
In 2000, he established the F.W. de Klerk Foundation, and in 2004, de Klerk began the Global Leadership Foundation. He also became an author, his autobiography The Last Trek: A New Beginning was published in 1999. The F.W. de Klerk foundation was made to build relationships in multiracial societies, promote peaceful and negotiated resolutions to a situation, uphold to Constitution, and create resources for disabled and underprivileged kids. De Klerk’s autobiography states his motivation for ending the apartheid in South Africa. It also gives F.W. de Klerk’s opinion of which direction South Africa is heading in and what place the Afrikaner people might have in the new South Africa. So we learned that after de Klerk was president, he had an affair, got divorced with his wife of 38 years, he was remarried, he established the F.W. de Klerk Foundation and the Global Leadership Foundation, and lastly, he published an autobiography about what led him to end the apartheid in South Africa.
In 2000, he established the F.W. de Klerk Foundation, and in 2004, de Klerk began the Global Leadership Foundation. He also became an author, his autobiography The Last Trek: A New Beginning was published in 1999. The F.W. de Klerk foundation was made to build relationships in multiracial societies, promote peaceful and negotiated resolutions to a situation, uphold to Constitution, and create resources for disabled and underprivileged kids. De Klerk’s autobiography states his motivation for ending the apartheid in South Africa. It also gives F.W. de Klerk’s opinion of which direction South Africa is heading in and what place the Afrikaner people might have in the new South Africa. So we learned that after de Klerk was president, he had an affair, got divorced with his wife of 38 years, he was remarried, he established the F.W. de Klerk Foundation and the Global Leadership Foundation, and lastly, he published an autobiography about what led him to end the apartheid in South Africa.
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Websites:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153615/FW-de-Klerk
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Trek-A-Beginning-Autobiography/dp/0312223102
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Websites:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153615/FW-de-Klerk
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Trek-A-Beginning-Autobiography/dp/0312223102
Pictures:
http://digitaljournal.com/img/2/5/7/7/3/3/i/4/5/4/o/FW_de_Klerk_Wife_Elita.jpg
http://cpcucc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/243-F-W-DeKlerk.jpg