The content originally appeared on: CNN De Klerk released Mandela, his subsequent successor, from prison and laboriously negotiated with him a transition to democracy, ending a decades-long segregationist system that kept South Africa's White minority in power over the Black majority for generations. The two men shared the peace prize in 1993 for their work to end the policy, but de Klerk - who had served in governments that upheld apartheid, and who after his retirement appeared reluctant to condemn […]
