South Africa’s land laws must redress apartheid’s legacy. More than 30 years into democracy, black ownership of farmland ...

On Tuesday, three federal courts dealt out ass-kickings to the president in right around 90 minutes. Then, I suppose, everybody went to lunch or something. Two of the courts were in D.C. The other was ...

President PW Botha's speech on 15 August 1985 to the National Party (NP) of Natal was the turning point at which white rule in South Africa failed to turn. Botha was expected to use the speech, ...

In reality though P.W. Botha more than F.W. de Klerk represents the bridge between the old and the new South Africa. As a cabinet minister he was zealous in executing the apartheid policy in ...

He started working as a young diplomat during the government of Hendrik Verwoerd. During his time under B.J. “John” Vorster, P.W. Botha, F.W. de Klerk and N.R. “Nelson” Mandela, Eksteen served as an ...

Zuma and Botha are no different; they have the same value system. What else can we expect from the man from Nkandla. President Jacob Zuma is correct in comparing himself to the Afrikaner leader PW ...

I am writing to express our sense of shock t hat you and your government should have seen fit to invite Mr . P.W. Botha, the South African Prime Minister to come to England as an official guest of ...

In intense discussions that took place within the NP leadership during the 1980s, Pik Botha was a prominent and consistent advocate of reform, constitutional negotiations and the release of Nelson ...

To tens of millions of then oppressed black and progressive South Africans, Thatcher came across as the West's biggest defender of the racist apartheid dictatorship and of the apartheid prime minister ...

Despite PW Botha’s warning, Barnard - like so many others - was mesmerised by Mandela and regarded him - and treated him - almost from their first meeting as the President-in-waiting. The defining ...