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. ...

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 ...

Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on 18 March 1936, the son of Senator Jan De Klerk, a senior Cabinet Minister ... On 15 August 1989, after the resignation of President PW Botha, ...

Vorster first mooted the idea of major reforms in mid-1975, in informal conversations with a cabinet colleague and friend Fanie Botha, who he would appoint as Minister of Labour early in 1976.[2] The ...

He stepped down to assume the ceremonial position of state president of South Africa, but was soon asked by his successor P.W. Botha and cabinet members to resign. Under Botha South Africa entered the ...

It was a measure of Erasmus's incompetence and foolhardiness that when he was finally shunted into another cabinet portfolio in 1960 by Prime ... the South African Party government of Louis Botha ...

Peneva subsequently turned state witness and Moerane Mamase also resigned from her cabinet position a few months later ... SAFE employees Quentin Scott and Dries Van Rooyen and Andre Botha. The other ...

Centralisation of power reached such a zenith under Mbeki that the loaded term "an imperial presidency", last used in the bad old days of P.W. Botha, made an unwelcome ... kept utterly inept ...

During the Afrikaner rebellion, Prime Minister Louis Botha attempted but failed to use only Afrikaner ... returning to the military immediately the NP cabinet took office. Firstly, as an advisor to ...

TRIATHLON Zimbabwe held their last competitive race at Mount Pleasant Pool yesterday, with most of the top juniors and youth maintaining their dominance in their respective age groups. It was the ...