Roelof Botha was raised in South Africa, but has become one of the most important people in the US tech space.

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The list of ‘converts' is long and impressive, from the most outspoken supporters of apartheid (I think, for example, of Pik Botha[6]) to the myriad of amorphous, middle-ground politicians with no ...

(Mail & Guardian, October 31 2008). This picture of Thabo Mbeki, as the exiled ANC's intellectual and diplomatic whiz-kid, can be contrasted with that of Pik Botha, apartheid South Africa's longest ...

There seems to be something foul and malevolent in the air up there. AMONG those who paid tribute to Pik Botha, who died on Friday morning, was the United Democratic Movement’s Bantu Holomisa.

I have learned with great sadness of the death of Pik Botha. He was one of the leading personalities in South African politics from 1970 until his retirement from active politics in 1996. He served ...

(What meisie working at foreign affairs in the 1980s would even think of behaving like this? Unless, of course, she’d been influenced by Pik Botha.) Helpful? Thought so. South Africa has eleven ...

Introduction 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 ...

She added: “The whites would be better served by a strong leader with clear objectives.”[2] Thatcher asked R.F. (Pik) Botha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to meet with her secretly in London to ...

It is generally agreed that in subsequent years the ANC government increasingly stressed the latter. In 2007 F.W. de Klerk and Pik Botha, by then retired from politics, threw their weight behind the ...

In 1994, National Party leaders had told their constituents the constitution was the best deal whites could have obtained, but "In 2005 F.W. de Klerk and R.F. (Pik) Botha told Thabo Mbeki that the NP ...