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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Pik Botha
		Pik Botha in 1984, with (right to left) State President P W Botha, and President Samora Machel of Mozambique and Mrs GraÃ§a Machel, at the signing of the Nkomati Accord.
		In December 1988 Pik Botha flew to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, with Defence Minister Magnus Malan, and signed a peace protocol with Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of the Congo, and with Angolan and Cuban signatories.
		Botha became deputy leader of the National Party in the Transvaal from 1987 to 1996.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Pik_Botha (676 words)

	Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a school principal.
		Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool, Potchefstroom, and was a good all-round pupil, becoming chairman of debating society, head of the Voortrekkers, a member of the rugby team, an officer in the school cadets, and was top of his class.
		Botha was appointed Law Adviser of the Department of Foreign Affairs in February 1966, and between 1966 and 1974 attended seven sessions of the United Nations General Assembly as a member of the South African delegation.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/botha-p.htm (1000 words)

	Pieter Willem Botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as "P.W." and as "''die groot krokodil''" (the big crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989.
		Botha was a longtime supporter of South Africa's National Party and a staunch advocate of racial segregation and the apartheid system.
		Botha was not related to contemporary National Party politician Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, who served as foreign minister.
	pieter-willem-botha.iqnaut.net (454 words)

	SAPA - 11 Sep 98 - PIK BOTHA SAYS HE WOULD HAVE RESIGNED OVER LONDON BOMB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Botha is attending the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's amnesty committee hearings in Pretoria where eight former policemen, including former police commissioner General Johann Coetzee and apartheid spy Craig Williamson, are applying for amnesty for the London bombing in March 1982.
		PW Botha's lawyer, Ernst Penzhorn, who is at the proceedings, suggested to Coetzee that Botha had not sanctioned the bombing and that Le Grange as a minister of government had taken t harm the good relations he had with Thatcher's government.
		Pik Botha may be called to give evidence at the hearing next week in connection with alleged foreign affairs involvement in the London boma about allegations that the explosives for the bomb were transported to London by way of the diplomatic bag, and in a civilian aircraft.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1998/9809/s980911d.htm (652 words)

	Botha urges whites to vote ANC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Botha, who during a near two-decade stint as National Party foreign minister famously challenged the United Nations to do its best to defeat apartheid, said the ANC could be a political home for whites.
		Botha's pro-ANC views are the latest in a string of unexpected comments by the minister who quit politics in 1996 but who recently has been linked with the opposition United Democratic Movement and the board of the state broadcaster.
		Botha apologised in 1997 for failing to turn the tide of apartheid and for his reluctance to investigate the killing and torturing of political opponents by white security forces.
	www.namibian.com.na /2000/January/Africa/urges.html (436 words)

	Water Pik Flosser -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha (born April 27, 1932, in Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa), is a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era.
		To survive the predations of the Zebranky, the Zoq, the Fot and the Pik banded together, annihilated the Zebranky and formed a cooperative union.
		For another five thousand years, the Zoq, the Fot and the Pik relaxed in the forests, until one day one of each race was walking up a steep path looking for something to eat, when a bolt of lightning struck nearby.The bolt of energy carved a wheel-shaped chunk of granite out of a cliff.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/166/water-pik-flosser.html (670 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Pik Botha ‘free of cancer’ - doctors
		Pik Botha (72), long-time foreign minister in the apartheid government, is free of further cancer, preliminary tests have shown.
		Botha is nonetheless very tired and in need of further rest in Unitas's intensive care unit.
		Pik Botha underwent a two-hour operation on Tuesday during which a cancerous tumour was removed.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/412230.htm (310 words)

	Cliff Saunders: On Pik Botha - with my own comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		You know, if Pik had character, he could have resigned or made a public statement, saying that he disagrees with things he is being asked to do.
		My partner in the SABC"s so-called "Pik and Cliff Show" was a charismatic and compelling speaker and the favourite of foreign TV journalists as he deftly fielded their questions during the height of South Africa"s pariah status in the world.
		Pik Botha was also very wrong when he made certain firm promises to UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in Angola.
	www.africancrisis.org /NewsView.asp?Rec=8079&EID=0 (718 words)

	SAPA - 29 Oct 98 - PIK BOTHA SURPRISED AT TRC FINDING ON SSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Botha on Thursday told Sapa he gave evidence before the TRC for four hours and dealt with the duties and functions of the SSC at length.
		Botha said it was surprising that this fact had apparently not dawned on the TRC.
		The report also implicated former state president PW Botha, saying that he, by virtue of his position as chairman of the SSC, contributed to and facilitated a climate in which the gross violations occurred and he had to be held accountable for it.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1998/9810/s1029j.htm (252 words)

	CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Racism - January 3, 2000
		BOTHA: I think that I'm correct in saying that, in general -- and this is part of the problem that we have -- in general, fls were looked upon as inferior human beings -- a separate educational system, separate community, separate medical services for them.
		BOTHA: You know, I think what Archbishop Tutu said I can agree with, mainly, we inherited these primitive instincts, the plan, our forefathers in the graves, we had to be together to survive, to kill animals, to gather food, and anybody that entered our area or region were considered to be enemies.
		BOTHA: Yes, when I see scenes like that, and of course they were fully reported in South Africa during the course of the proceedings, there's no question about it, I can assure you, that a large number of the white people of this country go through the feeling of guilt.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0001/03/se.38.html (5364 words)

	Pik Botha Wants to Join ANC
		Botha thinks it's time for the Afrikaners to start working together with the fl majority in the country.
		Botha has certainly done that in the past, but it would be a good thing if he repeated it".
		Yet Niehaus sees it as a positive development that Botha wants to be a member of the ANC: "I think that also in South Africa it will be seen as a sign from the white community that it wants to work for reconciliation".
	www.rnw.nl /hotspots/archive/zaf/html/southafrica000111.html (388 words)

	PIK BOTHA'S ROLE IN ANGOLA
		The complete lack of perspective and context of events that surrounds the reports of Pik Botha's flurry of diplomacy in Angola is beyond belief.
		Pik Botha clearly wants to broker a deal that will give Pretoria's Angolan ally real power in a multi-party government.
		Pik Botha is arguing for equal representation in a government by Unita and MPLA.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1992/pr1025.html (302 words)

	ALOR - OnTarget Vol.22 - No.4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Botha Government continues to persuade the International Bankers that it is striving to introduce political "reforms" in order that existing foreign debts may be "re-scheduled" and new loans obtained.
		R.F. Botha, generally known as "Pik", eventually became South Africa's Minister for Foreign Affairs, his appointment was warmly welcomed at the UN and other centres of international power.
		"Pik" Botha has maintained his close links with the internationalists, and in 1983 defended Henry Kissinger in the South African Parliament, claiming that Kissinger was a fine conservative who had stood firmly against the Soviet Union.
	www.alor.org /Volume22/Vol22No4.htm (1296 words)

	Cliff Saunders: FW De Klerk & Pik Botha should apologise to Whites! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rather I would prefer hearing F W de Klerk and the likes of Pik Botha apologising to the Whites of this country for the role they played in engineering a switch-over of government whereby the new ANC government rapidly replaced "racist apartheid" benefitting the whites with "racist affirmative action" benefitting the fls.
		As for the reference to PW Botha as a "lost cause, a dinosaur coddled in senility" -- such a remark can come only from a person who has not seen the latest interviews with PW Botha which are now out in the public domain (under copyright!) via DVD and VHS recordings.
		PW Botha displays remarkable clarity of mind and memory and analysis during his two-hour-long interviews in English and Afrikaans -- and it is that which the ANC wishes to keep from the public domain.
	www.africancrisis.org /NewsView.asp?Rec=7801&EID=0 (583 words)

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		South African Foreign Minister Roelof (Pik) Botha has denounced as "vicious lies and malicious propaganda" reports of a skirmish on a recent Cathay Pacific flight in which he allegedly sought to eject fl Nigerian men from the plane's first-class section.
		Botha categorically denied that any such incident had occurred and said it was another example of "malicious lies and vicious propaganda" against South Africa.
		Botha approached C/P (chief purser) and demanded to know where they were from and why they were in (first class).
	www.ericellis.com /botha.htm (356 words)

	The Herald Online News
		Pretoria — Former foreign minister Pik Botha, 72, was successfully operated on for cancer yesterday and has undergone tests to establish what further action is needed.
		Botha will remain in hospital for up to 10 days.
		A long-time foreign minister in the National Party government and a minister of mineral and energy affairs in the coalition government of 1994, Botha had a tumour and the right side of his colon removed in a two-hour operation.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2005/02/09/news/n27_09022005.htm (100 words)

	Madiba phones ill Pik
		PW Botha will be remembered as the man leading SA during its most turbulent, political history.
		Only when he takes his granddaughter Robynne Botha in his arms and playfully explains that as a woman she's not supposed to make herself sound older by saying she's "almost 12" instead of "she's just turned 11", it's clear what's really important to him.
		Botha was also dignosed with prostate cancer in 1998.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1658442,00.html (372 words)

	131-1989
		Pik Botha later (25.07.1991) admits that South Africa had set up a massive "slush fund" of 100 million South African Rand to fund all opposition parties, especially the DTA, in an effort to defeat SWAPO in the UNO supervised elections.
		South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha alleges that South Africa has been monitoring UNTAG’s communications for several days and has now clear and unambiguous proof that UNTAG is aware of SWAPO plans for a mass invasion from Angola into Namibia more or less on the eve of the elections.
		Pik Botha later admits that these reports were communicated to him by General Johannes Geldenhuys from the same source as information on the events of 31.03./01.04.1989 which had led to the attack and death of PLAN troops and civilians.
	www.klausdierks.com /Chronology/131.htm (8935 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Repressing the Press
		The letter, according to Botha, indicated that the communist group had little interest in negotiating with the white minority government and therefore posed a threat of violence to the nation.
		Botha stated quite succinctly that the whites are interested only in their own survival as a separate race and culture in South Africa.
		If, as Pik Botha stated, the primary purpose of white South Africans is to survive, then perhaps a sacrifice of some of their public ties to Western nations would not be too high a price.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=232597 (833 words)

	botha
		In an interview with the newspaper, Botha said there was no doubt former president Nelson Mandela was a greater leader than former president FW De Klerk.
		Botha said there were many Afrikaners who wanted to build a democratic South Africa, but there were also other Afrikaners who "let themselves listen to gossip and other no-good elements".
		Botha emphasised he was not considering joining the ANC "just to be on the side of the governing party".
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/01/10/southafrica/BOTHA.HTM (319 words)

	botha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		PRETORIA -- Former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha on Friday received a permanent pacemaker after doctors discovered his heartbeat was irregular, the Pretoria Heart Hospital said.
		A spokeswoman said a coronary angiogram performed on Mr Botha, 65, on Friday morning revealed his heart was beating too slowly.
		He said it was the first time in 38 years that he had been admitted to hospital.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1998/03/02/southafrica/BOTHA.HTM (97 words)

	Botha set to become member of the ANC
		SOUTH Africa's maverick former foreign minister R F 'Pik' Botha, one of the great survivors of the apartheid-era regime, seems ready to make a startling political transformation into a card-carrying member of the African National Congress.
		Now Mr Botha is signalling that he is ready to take seriously the ANC's assurances that there is room in its ranks for Afrikaners.
		Mr Botha was one of the world's longest-serving foreign ministers, holding the job from 1977 until 1994.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/01/10/wpik10.html (353 words)

	Cape Times: Mandela praises Pik's Iraq plan at reunion
		Former foreign minister Pik Botha plans to visit Iraq to warn president Saddam Hussein that he should open the country completely to weapons inspectors in order to avoid a war, former president Nelson Mandela said at the weekend.
		Botha had phoned him to tell him of the plan, Mandela said, and he had given Botha his support.
		Botha had travelled widely and had "wide horizons" before the negotiated settlement was reached, unlike former president F W de Klerk, he said.
	www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=44289 (772 words)

	The Herald : News
		The accused are former foreign minister Pik Botha’s two grandsons, Frederik Botha, 20, Dawid Botha, 22, Lebau Botha, 20, (no relation to Pik Botha) and Ryno Holm, 19.
		Deon Cloete, appearing for the two Botha brothers, accused the State of attempting to mislead the court and that their “further investigations” were just a “fishing expedition”.
		Before the court started, the uncle told reporters he was representing the family and that his father, Mr Pik Botha, would not be there as they feared it might look like he was trying to influence proceedings.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2003/09/16/news/n17_16092003.htm (674 words)

	6 November 1991 - Pik Botha visits Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, visits the Soviet Union, where he re-established consular relations which had been severed in 1956.
		Though the visit was unofficial Botha managed to meet his counterpart, Boris Pankin, and Eduard Shevardnadze, who replaced Pankin twelve days after the visit.
		Botha also announced the opening of a trade mission in St Petersburg.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/thisday/1991-11-06.htm (77 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Pik Botha undergoes surgery
		Pik Botha, long-time foreign minister in the apartheid government, was undergoing surgery in Pretoria's Unitas Hospital on Tuesday morning, a hospital spokesperson said.
		Karen Lindeque said Botha had gone into theatre at 9am.
		Botha (72) was diagnosed as having a tumour in the colon and this week underwent tests to see if he was ready for an operation while on medication that thinned his blood.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/514635.htm (145 words)

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