But on the point of his own sainthood, Mandela actually agreed with de Klerk: "I was not a Messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances." 但就自己获得的圣徒美誉这一点而言,曼德拉其实同意德克勒克的观点:“我不是救世主,而是一位因特殊情势演变为领导者的普通人。”
Coming from de Klerk, this unflattering view should not surprise us. 这种直言不讳的观点出自德克勒克之口,应该不会让我们感到惊讶。
With South African President F.W. de Klerk, whom he had met secretly with other apartheid officials in prison, Mr. Mandela would pick apart the machinery of white political domination through painstaking negotiations. 由于德克勒克(F.W.deKlerk)当时担任南非总统,曼德拉愿通过艰苦谈判来废除这部白人统治政坛的机器。德克勒克与其他反种族隔离官员曾在狱中秘密会见过曼德拉。
'The season of violence is over,' Mr. de Klerk said at the time. 'The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived.' 德克勒克当时称,靠暴力解决问题的时代已经一去不复返,重建国家以及和解的大幕正在拉开。
From the first, I noticed that Mr de Klerk listened to what I had to say. This was a novel experience, Mandela wrote. 曼德拉写道:从一开始,我就注意到德克勒克乐于倾听我要说的话。
But he also declared that President FW de Klerk was a man of integrity, legitimating the Afrikaner leader in the eyes of the black majority, and thereby validating negotiations with the regime as the route to liberation. 曼德拉还宣布,德克勒克总统是一个正直的人,在许多黑人的眼里,他也是一位合法的南非白人领袖,因此,依靠谈判改变政体,甚至达到自由解放都是可行的。
When he was taken from prison to meet FW de Klerk, Mandela congratulated him on becoming president. 当曼德拉出狱会见弗雷德里克•威廉•德克勒克(FWdeKlerk)时,他祝贺后者当选南非总统。
In addition to Tutu and De Klerk, laureates and Martti Ahtisaar, Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's international governing body, and actress Charlize Theron were invited to attend. 除了图图和德克勒克之外,纳尔逊·曼德拉和马尔蒂·阿赫蒂萨里,国际足联主席布拉特,以及女演员查理兹·塞隆都被邀请参加。这个事件受到诺贝尔委员的祝福。
De Klerk said that the decision to refuse the visa made a "mockery" of the peace conference. 德克勒克说,拒绝签证的决定成为和平会议的一个“嘲笑”。
Mr Botha said President De Klerk's commitment to the abolition of apartheid was irreversible. 总统对于废除种族隔离的承诺是不会改变的。