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Bookmark or Share- Louis Botha | Boer War Hero, First Prime Minister of South Africa ...Louis Botha was a soldier and statesman who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1910–19) and a staunch advocate of a policy of reconciliation between Boers and Britons, as well as of limiting the political rights of Black South Africans.
- P. W. Botha - WikipediaPieter Willem Botha, DMS (locally / ˈ b ʊər t ə / BOOR-tə, [1] Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈvələm ˈbuəta]; 12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician. He was the head of government of South Africa from 1978 to 1989, serving as the last prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first ...
- P.W. Botha | Biography & Facts | BritannicaP.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.
- P. W. Botha, Defender of Apartheid, Is Dead at 90Mr. Botha was a combative, irascible son of a well-to-do Afrikaner farm family who dropped out of college to work for the right-wing National Party, then rose through the ranks of South Africa’s...
- Pieter Willem Botha - South African History OnlineBotha was successful in forging the traditionally conservative military into a powerful multiracial, national armed force with a social and humanitarian support group to work among the Black population, which had become a major target of the border war.
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