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P. W. Botha - Wikipedia. Pieter Willem Botha, DMS ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈvələm ˈbuəta]; 12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician. He served as the last prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president of South Africa from 1984 to 1989.
Nov 1, 2006 · P. W. Botha, the South African leader who struggled vainly to preserve apartheid rule in a tide of domestic racial violence and global condemnation, died yesterday at his home in South Africa.
P.W. Botha, prime minister (1978–84) and first state president (1984–89) of South Africa. During his term in office, Botha sought (with limited success) to find some middle ground between those who fully supported apartheid and the increasingly frustrated and militant nonwhite population.
Oct 31, 2006 · Botha was known by all as PW, and by some as Piet Wapen (Peter Weapon), the Axe Man or ‘Die Ou Krokodil'. He was feared for his abrasive personality, but his most vehement opponents respected his political nerve.
May 18, 2018 · South African political leader, president, and prime minister. After serving for six years as prime minister, P. W. Botha became the first executive state president of the Republic of South Africa in 1984. His administration was marked by tension and riots.
Nov 1, 2006 · P.W. Botha, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening racial crisis as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Tuesday at his home in...
Oct 31, 2006 · CAPE TOWN, South Africa – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died today. He was 90.
Nov 1, 2006 · South Africa's last hard-line white president has died. P.W. Botha was 90. He oversaw South Africa's worst racial violence, and international isolation, in the years 1978 to 1989. But Nelson...
Oct 31, 2006 · P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday.
Jul 31, 2018 · South African President Pieter Willem Botha speaks to the National Party in Durban, South Africa, 1986.
