South Africa’s De Klerk in hospital for heart procedure

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Former South African President F.W. de Klerk and wife Elita leave after attending the funeral service of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral, in LondonJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, will undergo a procedure on Tuesday to install a pacemaker, his assistant said. De Klerk, 77, received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with his successor, Nelson Mandela, in 1993 for overseeing South Africa's transition from white-minority apartheid rule. "He expects to be discharged from hospital within 24 hours. He's going to get a pacemaker and then coming out," de Klerk's personal assistant, Brenda Steyn, told Reuters. …

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