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Highlights:
– F.W. de Klerk is the last leader of white-ruled South Africa
– He says the ANC is too powerful and that is a problem
– There's grinding unemployment in the country, he says
– He says he and Nelson Mandela are "close friends"

By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) - The last white president of South Africa said the post-apartheid land is still trekking toward prosperity for all and a better democracy.

"Fact is that in South Africa, transition is taking its time," F.W. de Klerk said in an interview aired Thursday on "Amanpour," hosted by CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "I'm convinced it's a solid democracy and it will remain so, but it's not a healthy democracy."

Two decades ago, de Klerk joined with then-African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela to end the notorious system of racial separation known as apartheid. Their efforts led to a Nobel Peace Prize.

Today, de Klerk said, the ANC - the party in control - is too powerful, its leaders have lost their "moral compass," and it needs to split.

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