Article 5RSA5 FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, dies aged 85

FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, dies aged 85

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Peter Beaumont
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Office issues posthumous video in which De Klerk apologies for damage that apartheid has done'

South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, who with Nelson Mandela oversaw the end of apartheid, has died in Cape Town aged 85, with his office issuing a prerecorded posthumous video apology for the country's discriminatory system of white minority rule.

I, without qualification, apologise for the pain and the hurt and the indignity and the damage that apartheid has done to black, brown and Indians in South Africa," a gaunt De Klerk said in the recording.

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