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08/14/2004:

"Last stalwart of white rule resigns from his party"

SOUTH Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, turned on his former party yesterday for merging with its one-time enemy, the African National Congress (ANC), and renounced his membership.

De Klerk, who guided the National Party in its historic moves to scrap apartheid and permit the country's first all-race elections in 1994, said his political successors within the New National Party (NNP) had gone too far.

"The NNP has abandoned its right to differ publicly with the ANC," de Klerk said in a statement. "I am accordingly withdrawing from the NNP. I am not considering joining the ANC and shall decide in due course for what party I shall vote."

Full Article : scotsman.com