Background
Klerk, Frederik Willem de was born on March 18, 1936 in Johannesburg, Republic South Africa.
Klerk, Frederik Willem de was born on March 18, 1936 in Johannesburg, Republic South Africa.
Bachelor, Potchefstroom U. for Christian Higher Education Bachelor of Laws cum laude, Potchefstroom U. for Christian Higher Education, 1958.
Associate, law firm, Vereeniging, Republic South Africa Member of Parliament for Vereeniging, 1972-1989; minister posts and telecommunications, social welfare-pensions, 1978; minister sport and recreation, 1978-1979; minister mining and environmental planning, 1979-1980; minister mineral and energy affairs, 1980-1982; minister internal affairs, 1982-1985; minister national education, 1984-1989; elected state president, Cape Town, Republic South Africa, 1989; executive state president, Pretoria, Republic South Africa, 1989-1994; executive deputy president, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 1994-1996; leader official opposition House of Assembly, Parliament of Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 1996-1997. Chairman ministers' county House of Assembly, 1985-1986, leader, 1986. Leader National Party in Transvaal, 1982-1989, National Party, 1989-1997.
Son of Jan de Klerk; married Marike Willemse, April 1969. 3 children; married Elita Landras Georgiadis, November, 1998.
