Pik Botha, a reformer who was tasked with defending apartheid to the world
Oct 12th, 2018 Sandisiwe Ntlemeza 391 Views
By turns urbane and jovial, Botha, the foreign minister from 1977 until the end of white rule in 1994, was seen as a reformer in the hard-line National Party administrations he served under. In 1986 he predicted that South Africa might one day have a black president, a statement that earned him a stern rebuke from President P.W. Botha. Article: ED STODDARD