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State President of South Africa

title of the head of state of South Africa from May 1961 to May 1994

8 dated entries naming State President of South Africa, drawn from 7 separate years between 1936 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1936March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 7th and last State President of South Africa (d. 2021)source
  • 1978October 10 – John Vorster becomes State President of South Africa.source
  • 1979June 4 – Following the "Muldergate" Information Scandal, John Vorster resigns as State President of South Africa.source
  • 1984September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.source
  • 1985July 20 – Apartheid: State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.source
  • 1989February 3 – After a stroke, State President of South Africa P. W. Botha resigns as Leader of the National Party.source
  • 1989September 20 – F. W. de Klerk is sworn in as the seventh and last State President of South Africa. Soon afterwards he determines to suspend the South African nuclear weapons program.source

21st century

  • 2021November 11 – F. W. de Klerk, 85, South African politician, state president (1989–1994) and deputy president (1994–1996), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993), mesothelioma.source

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