Former President FW De Klerk says South Africa has taken a wrong turn and is rapidly moving away from constitutional democracy.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former President FW De Klerk says white South Africans are being made scapegoats for the problems plagueing the country including the high rate of unemployment.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former President FW De Klerk says President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken significant steps to improve the situation in South Africa.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former President FW De Klerk says South Africa's government has abandoned racial reconciliation.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

FW De Klerk says that the ANC should return to the pragmatic economic policies it had pursued up until 2006.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

FW De Klerk, the last apartheid president, says by 1987 both the ANC and the Apartheid government had accepted that they would have to negotiate to establish a new political system in South Africa.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

FW De Klerk, the last apartheid president, says the actions of Thuli Madonsela, journalists and civil society groups led to the downfall of former president Jacob Zuma.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former President FW De Klerk says he hasn't lost hope in a democratic South Africa.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former South African President, FW De Klerk, says democracy worked in South Africa for the first 13 years. He says Nelson Mandela worked tirelessly to promote South Africas new democracy.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

FW De Klerk says the radical faction within South Africa's ruling ANC is doing exactly what it always said it would do. He says the ANC is dispensing with the compromises that were negotiated into the constitution at the insistence of minority parties.

De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Former South African President FW De Klerk says the factions in the ANC that have captured the party since 2006 have no intention to honour the democratic constitution that was negotiated between 1993 to 1994. The ANC is the party of Nelson Mandela and has been the governing party in South Africa since 1994.


De Klerk was speaking at the his foundation's annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The conference commemorates De Klerk's speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced his intention to release Nelson Mandela and to negotiate a transition to democracy.

De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

Former State President FW De Klerk, spoke at the annual conference of his FW De Klerk Foundation. The foundation hosts a conference every year to commemorate his speech on 2 February 1990 in which he announced the release of Nelson Mandela.

De Klerk’s announcement on 2 February 1990, in which he announced the release of Mandela as well as the unbanning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations paved the way for negotiations which led to the first democratic elections in 1994.

In 1993 De Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace for their roles in negotiating South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy.

De Klerk was South Africa’s last apartheid State President and after the first democratic elections in 1994 served as a Deputy President to Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s first democratically elected Parliament.