F.W. de Klerk's Work Under Botha
President Botha
F.W. de Klerk served under President P.W. Botha from 1969 until the late 1980s. He served as a member of the lower house of assembly from 1969 to 1978. Later he was accepted into Botha’s cabinet. He was appointed the minister of posts and of telecommunications. He also had many other roles in the National Party. This is how he served under president Botha for about twenty years.
In 1988 Prime minister Botha had a stroke and was diagnosed with alzheimer's. F.W. realized this was a problem because Botha couldn’t remember things that were going on. For example he didn’t remember all the violence going on and that it was getting worse. The really bad part was that he wasn’t doing anything about it! So F.W. got other ministers together and convinced them Botha needed to step down because he was sick and the violence was getting worse, and they didn’t think he could run the country. The ministers agreed and they forced him to resign in 1989. Then F.W. became president of South Africa.
In 1988 Prime minister Botha had a stroke and was diagnosed with alzheimer's. F.W. realized this was a problem because Botha couldn’t remember things that were going on. For example he didn’t remember all the violence going on and that it was getting worse. The really bad part was that he wasn’t doing anything about it! So F.W. got other ministers together and convinced them Botha needed to step down because he was sick and the violence was getting worse, and they didn’t think he could run the country. The ministers agreed and they forced him to resign in 1989. Then F.W. became president of South Africa.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._W._Botha
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/pccda-fangaknetwork/message/4046
http://uanews.ua.edu/2008/10/nobel-peace-prize-winner-fw-de-klerk-to-deliver-blackburn-institutes-nix-lecture-oct-17-at-ua/http://gregmarinovich.photoshelter.com/image/I0000kjNjhtDKkLk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._W._Botha
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/pccda-fangaknetwork/message/4046
http://uanews.ua.edu/2008/10/nobel-peace-prize-winner-fw-de-klerk-to-deliver-blackburn-institutes-nix-lecture-oct-17-at-ua/http://gregmarinovich.photoshelter.com/image/I0000kjNjhtDKkLk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk