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IMHO, the end of Apartheid in South Africa owes as much to F.W. de Klerk as it does to Mandela. Here was a white leader leading a reform that nobody in the National Party saw coming, working with the ANC to bring about a free and fair democracy. Yet, de Klerk's appointment as President seems, at first glance, to be something of a fluke. If Botha doesn't have a stroke, or the NP picks somebody else, how much longer does apartheid drag out before somebody ends it? And what of South Africa's budding nuclear program?
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