Pik Botha, South Africa’s Last Apartheid Foreign Minister, Dies At 86

DANIEL J. WAKIN, New York Times: Obituaries
Fri, 10/12/2018 - 6:10pm

A defender of apartheid, he also showed a moderate streak rarely found among hard-liners, predicting that the country would one day have a black president.

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