From early on Mandela insisted on the need for a face-to-face meeting with Botha. “It is good to have preliminary discussion with you on the fundamental issues,” Barnard remembered him saying ...

The US president's policies underscore his commitment to preserving a world order built on racial and territorial supremacy ...

For the 10 years that she served her nation as its foremost diplomat, Dr Gaositwe Keagakwa Tibe Chiepe defended human dignity ...

In at least two cases it is people who have comprehensively failed as Cabinet ministers and shown ... but appointed state president to allow PW Botha to take over as prime minister (this was ...

Hermann Giliomee writes on the secret transcript of the cabinet meeting held before PW Botha’s disastrous speech in 1985 In 1984 a Tricameral Parliament for whites, coloured people and Asians was ...

Simone Botha will line up for the 17 and under team ... Zoe Christodoulou added another piece of hardware to her growing trophy cabinet at the weekend. Fighting in Newcastle the 20-year-old ...

Jannie Roux, Director-General in his office and cabinet secretary, sums up Botha's hold on power succinctly: "He was not afraid of taking decisions and he disliked long discussions in cabinet. He ...

On 25 August 1989 Botha’s cabinet forced him to resign. De Klerk was elected as president in September 1989 after a general election was held. Thatcher’s initiatives Early in 1989 Thatcher asked R.F. ...

It is most unlikely that Botha had asked Mandela’s prior permission to tape the conversation. He did not do so in the Sterrewag meeting with his cabinet in August 1985 or in a private talk a few years ...