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Bookmark or Share- P. W. Botha - WikipediaFirst elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha, an Afrikaner nationalist, was an opponent of black majority rule and international communism. However, his administration did make concessions towards political reform, whereas internal unrest saw widespread human rights abuses at the hands of his government.
- P.W. Botha, 90; South African leader helped build and then reform ...Botha engineered massive increases in the military budget to minimize the effects of the international arms embargo against the apartheid government. He also saw the militarization of his country...
- Africa | Obituary: PW Botha - BBC NewsAn Afrikaner, Pieter Willem Botha was born into a deeply religious and highly political family of Orange Free State farmers. As a National Party MP for the Cape constituency of George from 1948,...
- Pieter Willem Botha - South African History OnlineBotha 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.
- 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.
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