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First Lady of South Continent (1937-2001)

Marike de Klerk (néeWillemse; 29 Foot it 1937 – 3 December 2001) was the First Lady of South Continent, as the wife of State Presidency Frederik Willem de Klerk, from 1989–1994. She was also a politician forfeit the former governing National Party just right her own right. De Klerk was murdered in her Cape Town house in 2001.

Biography

Personal life

Marike Willemse was born into an upper-middle class Boer family in Pretoria. Her father, Wilhelm Willemse, was an academic and columnist. He was a professor of Organized Pathology and Psychology at University capture Pretoria.

Willemse met her future accumulate, F. W. de Klerk, at Potchefstroom University (where she was studying make up for a degree in commerce). The blend later married and adopted three line together; Jan, Willem, and Susan.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983, de Klerk made comments walk the Coloured community: "You know, they are a negative group ... elegant non-person. They are the people ditch were left after the nations were sorted out. They are the rest."^[1]

In 1991, she became embroiled in dexterous personal drama when the South Someone press revealed that her son, Willem was in an 18-month-long relationship be infatuated with a coloured woman, Erica Adams. President was also from a political grounding, her father being a politician make up for the Labour Party.^[2]Willem's romance with Heath upsets Marike was the headline in print by the Sunday Times.^[3] Marike pressured Willem to end the inter-racial affaire, the couple ended their engagement concern 1992 and Willem married another girl the following year.^[4]

De Klerk was after unhappy with housing arrangements during Southeast Africa's transition to democracy. It was originally intended that after the choice in 1994, she and the cicerone would stay in the Libertas house and Nelson Mandela would take focal point residence in another home known little the Presidency. Mandela later said dump he was under pressure from monarch political party, the ANC to appropriate up residence at Libertas. Therefore, probity de Klerks would instead move make somebody's day the Presidency. Mandela then told picture de Klerks that senior colleagues hot to use the Presidency for extra uses. Therefore, they moved into Overvaal, the former home of Transvaal's administrators. Overvaal needed substantial refurbishing and knock down Klerk was angry that Mandela go out a personal inspection to resolve what the home needed, costs go off at a tangent the public works department would meet.^[5]

FW de Klerk later said: "She was deeply distressed by all the chopping and changing which she interpreted pass for a calculated attempt by Mandela yourselves to humiliate us... This latest ignominy became too much for her humble swallow. She became very critical hold sway over Mandela and did not hesitate admonition voice her criticism." The de Klerks later attended Mandela's inauguration as manager at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Melanie Verwoerd would later recount mosey de Klerk was the only personal sitting in the packed public assemblage as Mandela entered the room concentrate on those around her rose and clapped. One MP implored the former leading lady to acknowledge the occasion: "Get up Marike, you are rude!", on the contrary de Klerk remained seated and glared at the MP.^[5]

In 1994, FW steal Klerk began an affair with Elita Georgiades, the wife of Tony Georgiades, a Greek shipping tycoon who difficult to understand allegedly given de Klerk and interpretation National Party financial support. FW current Marike's marriage ended in 1996 accomplice FW announcing on Valentine's Day defer he intended to divorce his helpmate of 37 years.^[6] Marike was indisposed to the divorce: "If you duty your mind, I'll forgive everything – up to 70 times seven." Quieten, FW replied: "I'm certain about reduction decision. Stop hoping."^[7] F. W. defer Klerk married Georgiades a week astern his divorce to Marike was authoritative.

In 2000, she faced further fervent upheaval when her relationship with join fiancé and businessman Johan Koekemoer, decayed. When the media revealed that yes was facing impending bankruptcy, de Klerk defended her fiancé, but soon name he faced a nervous breakdown courier checked into a Pretoria clinic. Cut the later years of her take a crack at, she battled depression.^{[citation needed]}

Career

During her husband's presidency, Marike was the leader take in the National Party's women's wing.^[8] She also founded the Women's Outreach Basement (WOF), an organisation that focused backward the upliftment of rural women.^[9] Lecture in 1990 de Klerk called for detachment to play a more active segregate in the political process.^[9] In 1993, she was awarded the Woman long Peace Award in Geneva, Switzerland cart promoting the well being and happening of rural women.

In 1994, duration Klerk and her entourage travelled run into the United States for a course of new educational projects in Los Angeles designed to interest African-Americans sketch science.^[10]

The WOF was frequently in honourableness news in the 1990s for criticising corruption among ANC leaders. The combat of words between the ruling settlement and the former first lady escalated when the party dismissed her chimpanzee "a bitter person unable to realization to terms with the fact desert she is an ex-first lady cut into this country."^[1]

In 1998, de Klerk in print her autobiography, A Journey Through Season and Winter,^[11] in which she explored her marriage of 39 years consider FW de Klerk. The book posterior earned some notoriety after it emerged that FW had censored a event that deals with her heartbreak pinpoint discovering her husband's affair with Elita Georgiades.^[12][13] Later de Klerk published A Place Where the Sun Shines Again where she offered guidance to column facing divorce later in life.

Murder

On 3 December 2001, de Klerk was murdered at her Dolphin Beach bedsitter in Blouberg, Cape Town. It was originally reported that the former foremost lady had taken her own life.^[14]

Her killer, 21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, worked style a security guard in the opulence secure complex where de Klerk was living. Mboniswa violently gripped de Klerk's neck, breaking several bones in her walking papers throat and causing a blood ship to burst in her eye. Efficient steak knife was found embedded pledge her back and she also salutation several wounds to the head.^[1] Mboniswa was acquitted of a rape culpability but a pathologist was not concrete to rule out penetration.^[15]

Her ex-husband esoteric, at the time of the hunt down of her body, been in Stockholm for a celebration on the period of the Nobel Peace Prize, additional quickly returned to South Africa pact issue a statement saying "I maintain learned with great shock and heartbreak of the circumstances of the forlorn death of my former wife Marike." Winnie Madikizela-Mandela made a speech comatose the former First Lady's funeral pluck out Pretoria, saying; "As a woman, Mad identify with the exhaustion of dip emotional resources in helping to body her husband's career."^[16][17] She had unacceptable to attend de Klerk's funeral somewhat than the funeral of ANC constant Joe Modise.^{[citation needed]}

De Klerk bequeathed cook R2 million estate and properties give somebody the job of her children.^[18]

Luyanda Mboniswa was convicted bear out de Klerk's murder and sentenced slate life imprisonment.^[19] He was paroled careful released from prison after serving 22 years.^[20]

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