JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Roelof “Pik” Botha, the last foreign minister of South Africa’s apartheid era and a contradictory figure who staunchly defended white minority rule but recognized that change was ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90. Botha died at his ...

Pieter W. Botha sputtered and bellowed, mad, sweating, his bald, waxen-looking head glistening in the glare of a South African courtroom. "Die Groot Krokodil," Afrikaans for "the great crocodile," had ...

Pik Botha, South Africa’s longtime foreign minister, whose defense of apartheid was tempered by flashes of recognition of the system’s injustice, and who went on to serve in Nelson Mandela’s unity ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pik Botha, who became the global face of South Africa's reviled apartheid government as Pretoria's minister of foreign affairs, has died aged 86 after a lengthy illness, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa ...

GEORGE, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa bid farewell to its last hard-line white leader, P.W. Botha, on Wednesday in a private funeral attended by President Thabo Mbeki as a sign of ...

Niel Barnard: head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service ​Niel Barnard, who has died aged 75, was head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and right-hand man ...

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