dead F.W. De Klerk

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

There goes one for 2022. Felt if he had made it and been picked he'd probably have been the 1st hit

[Imelda 621]

Hope he didn't saffer too much

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Fin de l'apartheid ? more like "fin de la partie" !

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

Final Video message on his foundations website 

 

https://fwdeklerk.org/index.php/en/

 

 

 

Christ he lost a fuck ton of weight through the illness. He wasn't a particularly large man

 

[drol 11,973]

Is any pre-apartheid SA political figure left? They don't seem to be extremely longeve.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

43 minutes ago, drol said:

Is any pre-apartheid SA political figure left? They don't seem to be extremely longeve.

Pre? Didn’t it start in the late 40s?

[drol 11,973]

Oops. Well, you know what I meant. Pre apartheid abolition.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

Desmond Tutu is really the last of the giants (household names in the Uk) from that era of South Africa politics left 

[gcreptile 10,979]

8 minutes ago, drol said:

Oops. Well, you know what I meant. Pre apartheid abolition.

Pre-post-apartheid.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

3 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Pre-post-apartheid.

Or just apartheid-era? 

[arghton 6,763]

Adriaan Vlok, Barend du Plessis and Dawie de Villiers were ministers in P.W. Botha's second cabinet. Kraai van Niekerk, Leon Wessels, Tertius Delport and Rina Venter (also the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the history of South Africa) were ministers in de Klerk's cabinet. I wouldn't really call any of these notable though.

 

Outside of politics, Georg Meiring (last apartheid-era chief of the defence force) and Eugene de Kock (police colonel, notorious torturer) are still alive.

 

Atleast Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Tutu from the notable anti-apartheid activists.

[TQR 14,404]

1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Or just apartheid-era? 

Yeah, when they didn’t avoid not doing anti-apartheid.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

11 minutes ago, drol said:

Oops. Well, you know what I meant. Pre apartheid abolition.

Sir Sydney Kentridge and Desmond Tutu are the most notable establishment figures of apartheid-era SA I'm aware of who are still alive. Both were anti-apartheid.

A total lack of records for South African birth and death records online means that I have loads of 95+ SA names on my Wiki watchlist who are likely dead but there's nothing to prove it either way.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

Allen Boesak Wiki still knocking about

 

In his mid 70's 

[Thatcher 2,418]

On 12/11/2021 at 14:08, arghton said:

Adriaan Vlok, Barend du Plessis and Dawie de Villiers were ministers in P.W. Botha's second cabinet. Kraai van Niekerk, Leon Wessels, Tertius Delport and Rina Venter (also the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the history of South Africa) were ministers in de Klerk's cabinet. I wouldn't really call any of these notable though.

 

Outside of politics, Georg Meiring (last apartheid-era chief of the defence force) and Eugene de Kock (police colonel, notorious torturer) are still alive.

 

Atleast Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Tutu from the notable anti-apartheid activists.

Adriaan de Vlok, mentioned here, has died aged 85. He served as Minister for Law and Order from 1986-1991.

 

Received obituaries from Daily Mail, Le Monde and BBC.