Racial violence, fueled by anger over President P.W. Botha`s apparent unwillingness to dismantle apartheid, flared in black townships Saturday, and security forces shot and killed a black man who was ...

President P.W. Botha said Tuesday night that he is willing to bring blacks into a high-level government advisory body, but only after he consults the white voters. In a speech that roared defiance to ...

“I believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon in South Africa. There is no turning back.” That was State President P.W. Botha’s assessment last week, but hardly anyone outside the South African ...

PW Botha will probably always be remembered as a ”black hat” man. He and Magnus Malan loved wearing those ridiculous homburgs when they inspected their beloved troepies — whether in the ”operational ...

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