and right-hand man to President PW Botha during the 1980s; towards the end of the decade, however, he played a crucial role in the negotiations with Nelson Mandela which led to the end of apartheid.

Mrs Thatcher did so in the face of fierce opposition from the Anti-Apartheid Movement and some of ... The Foreign Office briefing described Pieter Willem Botha as "a hard, dour and belligerent ...

The National Party, we are told, “imposed legal segregation along racial lines, known as apartheid, meaning ‘apartness’”. Anti-apartheid activists were ... Though decidedly unfunny, PW Botha’s ...

President PW Botha's speech on 15 August 1985 to the National Party ... In late August 1985 the US Congress passed the Comprehensive Anti-apartheid Act, which banned new investment and loans, withdrew ...

(See Politicsweb article ‘Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid', 24 February ... against apartheid rulers like PW Botha. What Margaret Thatcher desired to get rid of and to bury ...

Hermann Giliomee writes on the secret transcript of the cabinet meeting held before PW Botha’s disastrous ... until it received word of Botha’s furious state of mind. It then promptly published a ...

Under intense pressure, in February 1985 then president PW Botha offered Mandela freedom on condition ... There was pressure mounted by the Anti-Apartheid Movement worldwide, the vocal demonstrations ...

Very little has been published on South African diplomacy during the period of apartheid or on John Vorster ... affairs of African countries Vorster yielded to pressure from P.W. Botha, then Minister ...

Before this Ida had worked as a secretary to P.W. Botha when he was Minister of Defence ... the siege the "Sanheidrin" decided that the SAP needed an SAS/GSG/SWAT type of anti terrorist unit. This was ...