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- South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha has described Nelson Mandela as the country's "saviour". Mr Botha was one of the best known political figures of the apartheid era, serving for 17 years from 1977 until the first democratic elections in 1994. Later he was appointed as a minister in Mr Mandela's government of national unity.
www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-25357690'Mandela was a saviour', says apartheid era minister - BBC News
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Botha had first met Mandela in May 1990 at the historic Groote Schuur Minute, and was highly impressed by Mandela's knowledge of Afrikaner history. [15] Botha became deputy leader of the National Party in the Transvaal from 1987 to 1996.
Oct 12, 2018 · Conversations with Pik Botha: Apartheid, PW and Mandela. Pieter du Toit. Comments. Bookmark. Former apartheid minister of foreign affairs Pik Botha in his home north of Pretoria with journalist and now assisant editor of News24, Pieter du Toit. Photo: Marga Ley. Pik Botha's sprawling smallholding north of Pretoria is a fascinating place.
Dec 12, 2013 · South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha has described Nelson Mandela as the country's "saviour". Mr Botha was one of the best known political figures of the apartheid era, serving...
Oct 12, 2018 · Pik Botha, South Africa’s longtime foreign minister, whose defense of apartheid was tempered by flashes of recognition of the system’s injustice, and who went on to serve in Nelson Mandela’s...
I stated in Parliament, when put this question, that if Mr Mandela gives a commitment that he will not make himself guilty of planning, instigating or committing acts of violence for the furtherance of political objectives, I will, in principle, be prepared to consider his release.
Oct 20, 2018 · Roelof “Pik” Botha spent decades at the centre of South Africa’s political and diplomatic life as the last foreign minister under apartheid rule and who later served in the cabinet of the...
Nelson Mandela paid tribute to former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of apartheid who died on Tuesday and is remembered for doggedly refusing to release Mr Mandela from...