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In August 1997, de Klerk announced his retirement, and
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in 1977, when he was elected to represent the
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I was not the architect of this system. I got it. Basically, we are the ones who dismantled it, who moved away from it... I have never been a racist. If anyone can argue with me and tell me I was one, I'd like to know on what
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