JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela led South Africans on Wednesday in remembering former President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of apartheid who doggedly clung to white rule and refused to free ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former President Nelson Mandela said today that the death of P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era leader who resisted pressure to release Mandela in the 1980s, should serve as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, Lynne Duke, who died April 19, 2013, at the age of 56, covered the late Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his presidency. Her ...

From the teeming settlements of the Eastern Cape to the sprawling townships around Johannesburg and on to the outskirts of Cape Town, angry blacks have invoked Mandela’s name in demanding an end to ...