Possible Clues:

• South African president, d. 2013
• President of the African National Congress, 1991-97
• South African statesman
• South African president 1994 - 1999
• De Klerk successor
• Former South African president
• Democratic South Africa's first president
• Hold chap directed over a national leader
• Primarily means a national darling ending longstanding apartheid's prior hold
• Late political leader who wrote 'Long Walk to Freedom'