PW Botha, who has died aged 90, ruled South Africa under apartheid for 11 years until 1989, and was gradually exposed during his long decline as one of the most evil men of the 20th century, committed ...

Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, who has died aged 86, became the world’s longest-serving foreign minister while acting as principal mouthpiece for the South African regime abroad – a daunting task which ...

Johannesburg - PW Botha, who died on Tuesday, was a finger-wagging hawk who defied the world while ruling apartheid South Africa in the turbulent and violence-wracked 1980s. Nicknamed the "Groot ...

It is an intriguing thought. Many political analysts have wondered for years why Botha suddenly dug in his heels around the mid-1980s after he had started major reforms to apartheid, including the ...

Wilderness locals believe that the ghost of apartheid-era president PW Botha is haunting his old home in the southern Cape. The house on the Garden Route, named Die Anker, was sold to black ...

Former state president PW Botha has rejected a claim that he encouraged a right-wing coup plotter to leave politics and “get a movement with an iron fist”. “When I was state president I always said I ...

Amelia Paschke, one of former president PW Botha’s five children, died in a car crash shortly after a ceremony to bid farewell to her daughter, who died of natural causes earlier this month. “She was ...

Comrades, cadres and revolutionaries in the African National Congress (ANC) may stamp their feet. The communists in Luthuli House may scream their lies. The designer-democrats in the Democratic ...

PW Botha, the former President of South Africa who died on Tuesday aged 90, won widespread praise during the early 1980s as the architect of a reformed constitution, framed ostensibly to ease the ...

Johannesburg - PW Botha, who died on Tuesday, was a finger-wagging hawk who defied the world while ruling apartheid South Africa in the turbulent and violence-wracked 1980s. Nicknamed the "Groot ...

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 ...