而南非的末代种族隔离领导人德克拉克一开始被普遍认为只是旧体制的又一个捍卫者，几乎无人想到他会释放曼德拉并结束少数白人的统治。
And South Africa’s last apartheid leader, F. W. de Klerk, was initially perceived as just another apologist for the system – hardly the man to free Nelson Mandela and oversee the end of white minority rule.