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Reception and legacy

Glad and Blanton stated that de Klerk, along with Mandela, "accomplished the rare feat of bringing about systemic revolution through peaceful means." His brother noted that de Klerk's role in South African history was "to dismantle more than three centuries of white supremacy ", and that in doing so his was "not a role of white surrender, but a role of white conversion to a new role" in society. In September 1990, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education awarded de Klerk an honorary doctorate.

South Africa's Conservative Party came to regard him as its most hated adversary.

De Klerk was Africa's last White President until Guy Scott become caretaker President of Zambia from 2014 to 2015.