TO MAKE THE close acquaintance of F.W. de Klerk was to look into the face of a voortrekker. Although he had been comfortably brought up in suburban Johannesburg, his blue eyes still seemed to stare across the veld and the mountains the Afrikaner volk had crossed on the Great Trek in the 19th century. And his set jaw seemed ready to declare, as he often did, the blunt-but-courteous words: 'You are wrong.'Listen to this storyYour browser does not support the element.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.

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