Frederik de Klerk, the last white president of apartheid South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and Noble Price, holds a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of his historic address to parliament announcing the release of Nelson Mandela, at the Civic Center of Cape Town, South Africa, on February 2 2010. Klerk said that dismantling apartheid had averted catastrophe. Photo by Nathalie Gros/ABACAPRESS.COM