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SA: De Klerk: Speech by the former President of South Africa, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of his historic speech of February 2 1990, Cape Town - 169 KB
 

Date: 02/02/2010
Source: The FW De Klerk Foundation
Title: SA: De Klerk: Speech by the former President of South Africa, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of his historic speech of February 2 1990, Cape Town

Historians will regard the beginning of February 1990 as the watershed of South Africa's modern history. There were many events that opened the way to the speech that I delivered to the South African Parliament on 2 February 1990. However, the nine days between it and the release of Nelson Mandela on 11 February changed South Africa forever. Those crucial nine days set the country irreversibly on the road to a different and, I believe, a much better future...

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