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Article: For De Klerk's Party, Apartheid Is Part of a Past Best Forgotten; Former President Highlights Transformation as Elections Near
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- October 30, 1995
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"So-called apartheid," he said.
He is Frederick W. de Klerk, the deputy president of South Africa,
the former president of the government that dismantled apartheid, or
racial separation -- a policy so globally reviled that international
economic sanctions were brought to bear, isolation ensued, and South
Africa became a "pariah nation."
Now de Klerk, leader of the National Party that created and helped
end apartheid, is amiably fielding interview questions in his
Pretoria office 18 months after apartheid's official end in South
Africa's first all-race election that brought Nelson Mandela to
power.
Yes, he said, much from the old apartheid era needs to be
rectified, "but the way to rectify is ...