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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.
P. W. Botha (born January 12, 1916, Paul Roux, South Africa—died October 31, 2006, Wilderness, near George) was the prime minister (1978–84) and first state president (1984–89) of South Africa. A native of the Orange Free State, he studied law at the University of Orange Free State at Bloemfontein from 1932 to 1935 but left without ...
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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...
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Oct 31, 2006 · Botha's aims were the creation of a clean administration, law and order, constitutional reforms to include Coloureds and Indians (if only on paper), a gathering of South African states, and industrial decentralisation to improve the economic lot of the homelands.
Nov 1, 2006 · P.W. Botha, the hard-nosed South African leader who struggled vainly to preserve apartheid rule in a tide of domestic racial violence and global condemnation, has died at his home in South...
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 Wilderness,...
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. The 90-year-old died at his home on the...
