Born January 12, 1916; Died October 31, 2006. PW BOTHA'S former bitter political opponents were magnanimous towards their former oppressor upon hearing the news that he had died. Nelson Mandela, who ...

An African adage insists that we speak well of the dead. Mr Botha was known by Afrikaaners as the Big Crocodile This is possibly the reason why President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela ...

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Pieter Willem Botha, the public face of apartheid in South Africa through the 1980s, died overnight from a stroke at the age of 90. Botha’s legacy is a mixed one. When he first replaced the hard-line ...

The death of iron-fist former president of apartheid South Africa, Pieter Willem Botha has left contrasting feelings and opinions among people. Some say that he should be forgiven as he is dead, while ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. South Africa's last hardline white president, Pieter Willem Botha - often referred to simply as P.W. - has died. He was 90. The South ...

Former South Africa president Pieter Willem Botha, who led the country defying international condemnation of apartheid, has died. He was 90. Botha, who suffered a stroke two weeks ago, died peacefully ...

P.W. Botha, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening racial crisis as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Tuesday at his home in Wilderness, South ...

PIETER WILLEM BOTHA stepped into court on April 15th, a martyr to the lost cause of keeping South Africa Christian, capitalist and white. Or so he and his supporters seem to think. Others, looking at ...

As prime minister and president of South Africa, PW Botha had a mild reformist streak, but made it clear that he was not prepared to hand over the country to the black majority. The changes he made ...

Since the Second World War and the horrors of the Holocaust, the International Community has been committed to putting an end to the impunity of those responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes ...