Marius Benson reports from Cape Town that former President F.W. de Klerk apologized to South Africa's Truth Commission today for the decades of white minority rule carried out by the apartheid regime he once led. De Klerk expressed sympathy for all those who suffered under apartheid, although he denied allegations his government ordered the murders of some anti-apartheid activists. De Klerk, the last president under apartheid, freed Nelson Mandela in 1990 and set in motion the dismantling of the system of white domination.
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