Mandela and De Klerk share the Nobel Peace Prize

On 10 December 1993 Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk received the Nobel Peace Prize together in Oslo City Hall. The Norwegian Nobel Committee had announced the award in October, for their work for the peaceful end of apartheid and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. They were less than five months from an election in which they would run against each other. In his lecture Mandela said the reward would be measured by the happiness and welfare of the children, and named Chief Albert Lutuli and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South Africans honoured before them.