| LC control no. | n 81149981 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Botha, P. W. (Pieter Willem) |
| Variant(s) | Botha, Pieter Willem |
| See also | South Africa. President (1984-1989 : Botha) |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1916-01-12 |
| Death date | 2006-10-31 |
| Place of birth | South Africa |
| Place of death | Wilderness (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | National Party (South Africa) South Africa. Parliament South Africa. President (1984-1989 : Botha) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Presidents Prime ministers |
| Found in | South Africa. Dept. of Community Development. Community development in the Republic of South Africa, 1963. Enc. Brit. online, July 13 2006 (Botha, P(ieter) W(illem), first state president of South Africa, Sept. 1984-Aug. 1989) Co-operative co-existence, 1985: p. 1 (P.W. Botha, state president, Republic of South Africa) New York times WWW site, Nov. 1, 2006 (P.W. Botha; b. Pieter Willem Botha, Jan. 12, 1916, Orange Free State; d. yesterday [Oct. 31, 2006], aged 90; South African leader who struggled vainly to preserve apartheid rule in a tide of domestic racial violence and global condemnation) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Botha, Pieter Willem; P.W. or Die Groot Krokodil (The Great Crocodile); political activist, president, prime minister, Afrikaner nationalist; born 12 January 1916 in South Africa; completed his education in the early 1930s; worked as a reporter and a National Party organizer in South Africa's Western Province; elected to Parliament as a National Party representative (1948); was appointed Deputy Interior Minister (1958); became Prime Minister John Vorster's Defense Minister (1966); elected as the country's ninth prime minister (1978-1984) and executive state President (1984-1989); tried unsuccessfully to regain power in 1989 before resigning abruptly refused to cooperate with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1999; while in power he tried to reform race relations in South Africa; implemented constitutional reforms that established a Tricameral Parliament; accelerated the so-called Bantustan plan, granting nominal independence to three tribal nations, while secretly authorizing military action against black activists at home and abroad; his initiatives amplified antiapartheid criticism around the world; died 31 October 2006 in Wilderness, South Africa) |
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