Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996 in the democratic government. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule,he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal,he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
Potchefstroom is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. Potchefstroom is on the Mooi Rivier,roughly 120 km (75 mi) west-southwest of Johannesburg and 45 km (28 mi) east-northeast of Klerksdorp.
Abdul Kader Asmal was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape,chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and had two sons.
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters,who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier,in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948. The result of the election was a large victory for the "yes" side,which ultimately resulted in apartheid being lifted. Universal suffrage was introduced two years later.
The FW de Klerk Foundation is a nonpartisan organization that was established in 1999 by former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk.
Bonginkosi Emmanuel "Blade" Nzimande is a South African politician,sociologist,philosopher,educator,anti-apartheid activist and Minister of Higher Education,Science and Technology. He was Minister of Transport from 2018 to 2019,and Minister for Higher Education and Training from 2009 to 2017. He has been the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party since 1998.
The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans. In 2004,the university was merged with other institutions to create the North-West University.
Johan D. van der Vyver is the I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta,Georgia.
Johannes "Jan" de Klerk,was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk,the last apartheid State President of South Africa.
The North-West University (NWU) is committed to functioning as a unitary,integrated,multi-campus university that enables equity,redress and globally competitive teaching and research across all its campuses namely Potchefstroom,Mahikeng and Vanderbijlpark in South Africa.
Since 2010 The North-West University Gallery (NWU-Gallery) has formed part of PUK-Arts.
Gift of the Givers is a South African non-governmental organization and disaster relief group. It was established to offer disaster relief and response,together with other humanitarian work,with the aim to reach people worldwide.
The Dakar Conference was a historic conference between members of the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) and the African National Congress (ANC). It was held in Dakar,Senegal between 9 and 12 July 1987. The conference discussed topics such as strategies for bringing fundamental change in South Africa,national unity,structures of the government and the future of the economy in a free South Africa. The IDASA delegation from South Africa,participated in the conference in their private capacity and would later be condemned by the South African government for meeting a banned organization. The future indirect result of the conference was South African government talks with Nelson Mandela and his eventual meeting with P. W. Botha in 1989.
Potchefstroom Gimnasium is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high School in Potchefstroom,North West,South Africa.
Hendrik (Hennie) Johannes Jacob Bingle (1910–2007) was a Calvinist,educator and Rector of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in Potchefstroom,South Africa.
Tjaart van der Walt was the Rector of Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education,a Bible translator and later a diplomat.
Ntate Daniel Kgwadi is the vice-chancellor of Vaal University of Technology and is the former vice-chancellor and previous rector of the North-West University in South Africa now
Francois Jacobus du Toit was a South African journalist and economist who represented the Union of South Africa as Trade Commissioner in London,and later served as Chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
Jan Pieter de Lange was a South African educationalist,chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond,and a negotiator.
