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More than a year has passed since Pik Botha’s death and the claque of praise-singers has become a distant echo. By his overwhelming personality and theatrical persuasion, Pik for 17 years reigned over ...

On 24 October 1970, fifty years ago, the UN General Assembly resolved that all industrialised countries devote 0,7% of their GDP to co-operation aid. Formerly, we spoke of “Afro-pessimism”. Now that ...

There seems to be something foul and malevolent in the air up there. AMONG those who paid tribute to Pik Botha, who died on Friday morning, was the United Democratic Movement’s Bantu Holomisa.

There was good reason for reformists like Heunis and Foreign Minister Pik Botha to be very satisfied with outcome of the Sterrewag meeting. Dave Steward, a senior Foreign Affairs official who would ...

Your Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, summoned me to protest about it, before telling me that he agreed with it. Pik also used to look me straight in the eye and say: “Mr Ambassador, I just want to assure ...

This is a glorious day for us to be with the people of KwaMkhwanazi. We are making history and celebrating the return of your land today. We foresee that this celebration will cause hope to ...

In July 2007 Rapport) carried a bold front-page headline ‘The ANC lied to us' over a report of a speech by RF (Pik Botha on affirmative action in which he said: ‘If the ANC had demanded that the ...

That said, he is certainly not a well-known figure, as Daily Maverick has noted, although there is much about his moustache that may remind older voters of Pik Botha. On a more substantive level, ...

I had a quick glance at the weekend newspapers. As you know, some of them carry prominent reports about what you allegedly said about the ANC, affirmative action and other matters. I do not know if ...