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F.W. de Klerk was a hero of our time

12 November 2021

3:02 AM

12 November 2021

3:02 AM

FW de Clerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, has died at the age of 85. In 2010 Rian Malan wrote the following piece for The Spectator about his part in history.

I almost punched an Englishman the other day. We were sitting in a bar, talking about the 20th anniversary of F.W.

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