Despite growing up in very impoverished conditions in Korsten and Lotus River and without a father, Dr Antonio managed to ...

Dr Frans Cronje provides a robust assessment of the ANC’s reaction to US President Donald Trump’s recent pronouncements.

In reality though P.W. Botha more than F.W. de Klerk represents the bridge between the old and the new South Africa. As a cabinet minister he was zealous in executing the apartheid policy in ...

President PW Botha's speech on 15 August 1985 to the National Party (NP) of Natal was the turning point at which white rule in South Africa failed to turn. Botha was expected to use the speech, ...

He started working as a young diplomat during the government of Hendrik Verwoerd. During his time under B.J. “John” Vorster, P.W. Botha, F.W. de Klerk and N.R. “Nelson” Mandela, Eksteen served as an ...

I am writing to express our sense of shock t hat you and your government should have seen fit to invite Mr . P.W. Botha, the South African Prime Minister to come to England as an official guest of ...

In fact, the year 1989 should win hands down. It was the year in which Pres P.W. Botha suffered a serious stroke, which made it impossible to continue to reject a full-fledged democratic settlement.

From H F Verwoerd - who ironically undermined apartheid irrevocably with his schools plan - via the pompous and imperial John Vorster, and the finger-wagging PW Botha to FW de Klerk with a detour for ...

You cannot determine a person's rights by the colour of his skin, but that does not prevent me from talking to Prime Minister Botha and making my views clear. 5. Statement to the House of Commons on ...

When I came to South Africa in 1987, the country was in the grip of fierce repression under the regime of PW Botha. The ANC leaders were in jail or in exile, thousands of people were in prison without ...

To tens of millions of then oppressed black and progressive South Africans, Thatcher came across as the West's biggest defender of the racist apartheid dictatorship and of the apartheid prime minister ...

Under intense pressure, in February 1985 then president PW Botha offered Mandela freedom on condition that he 'unconditionally rejected violence as a political weapon'. President Mandela spurned the ...