Former South African president and Nobel peace prize winner FW de Klerk has died at 85, the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Thursday.

Growing up in an underdeveloped zone of Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Musa Motha says his surroundings weren't exactly idyllic. But he did have a dusty, make-shift soccer pitch directly across the street from his home. And for Motha, it was "paradise," he said.