The Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Nelson Mandela

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Frederik Willem de Klerk

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The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa."

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