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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. First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was an opponent of black majority rule and international communism .
Aug 15, 1989 · P. W. Botha quit under pressure tonight as South Africa's President, complaining that his Cabinet ministers were ignoring him.
South African President, Pieter Willem Botha, resigned from his position as state president seven months after a minor stroke that led to his admission in hospital, and amid rising political instability, growing economic problems and diplomatic isolation.
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.
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Feb 3, 1989 · President P. W. Botha, recuperating from a stroke, resigned abruptly today as leader of the National Party, which has governed South Africa for the last 40 years.
P. W. Botha suffers a mild stroke and, on this day he announces his intention to resign the National Party presidency while remaining State President. His resignation shocks his colleagues and leads to an internal succession process in the party that culminates in the appointment of F. W. de Klerk.
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Oct 31, 2006 · De Klerk's rule saw the dismantling of the Apartheid system and negotiations that eventually led to South Africa's first racially inclusive democratic elections on April 27, 1994. Botha was known by all as PW, and by some as Piet Wapen (Peter Weapon), the Axe Man or ‘Die Ou Krokodil'.
