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SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town : Frederik de Klerk, the last white president of apartheid South Africa from 1989 to 1994, holds a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of his historic address to parliament announcing the release of Nelson Mandela on February 2, 2010 in Cape Town. He said that dismantling apartheid had "prevented a catastrophe". Mandela's release nine days after De Klerk's address ended his 27-year imprisonment. The two shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their work in ending the apartheid regime and building a new democratic South Africa.AFP PHOTO / RODGER BOSCH

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