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    Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, DMS MP (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the...
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    economist. His uncle was the rock musician Piet Botha. His grandfather was Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, a South African politician who served as the country's...
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    1978, Botha was elected as his successor by the National Party caucus, besting the electorate's favourite, 45-year-old Foreign Minister Pik Botha. In the...
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  • politician Pik Botha (1932–2018), former South African politician Tzvika Pick (1949–2022), Israeli composer and singer Shek Pik, Hong Kong Pik Talgar, Kazakhstan...
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  • Frederik "Pik" Botha (1932–2018), South African politician and diplomat Sandra Botha (born 1945), South African diplomat and ambassador Stoffel Botha (1929–1998)...
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    passengers on-board had been killed. Pik Botha reported that he telephoned and informed State President P. W. Botha; they both agreed that, considering...
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  • foreign minister, Pik Botha, and an official delegation of 22 had a lucky escape. Their booking on Pan Am 103 was changed last minute, and Botha, together with...
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    of Minerals and Energy, a post that had also existed during apartheid. Pik Botha of the National Party was the minister between 1994 and 1996, making him...
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    African Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha (1932–2018) and the uncle of Roelof Botha, former CFO of PayPal. Botha went to the US in 1985 to work, but...
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  • Heunis, future Acting President and candidate for the NP leadership, and Pik Botha, future Minister of Foreign Affairs (1977–1994). However, the NP lost...
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  • damaged by an explosion. 29 – Prime Minister P.W. Botha and minister of foreign affairs Pik Botha visit Austria, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy...
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  • minister, Pik Botha, and an official delegation of 22 had a lucky escape. Their booking on Pan Am 103 was cancelled at the last minute and Pik Botha, together...
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    Information Minister Connie Mulder (1974), South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha (1979, 1984), Israeli Finance Minister Simcha Erlich (February 1978),...
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  • shortly thereafter, the homelands were reincorporated into South Africa. Pik Botha, South Africa’s Foreign Minister at the time, and member of the Transitional...
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  • Transvaal. After P. W. Botha fell ill in 1989, he successfully contested interim president Chris Heunis and Foreign Minister Pik Botha in the struggle for...
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    Cooperation Bureau operative, claims to have helped bring about Machel's death. Pik Botha, South African foreign affairs minister at the time, who later joined...
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  • Thatcher controversially invited South Africa's president P.W. Botha and foreign minister Pik Botha to a meeting at Chequers in an effort to stave off growing...
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  • Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa 27 April – Pik Botha, politician. (d. 2018) 12 May – Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, lawyer. (d. 2017)...
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    called for their unconditional withdrawal. South African foreign minister Pik Botha flatly dismissed the resolution out of hand, citing the unaddressed issue...
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  • stretchers wrapped in blankets. The Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs, Pik Botha, visited the scene and described it as "the most gruesome sight I have...
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  • Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG).: 428  The South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha informed Martti Ahtisaari that South African Military Intelligence had...
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  • one of the candidates for leadership of the National Party, along with Pik Botha, Barend du Plessis and Frederik de Klerk, but was beaten in the second...
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    Southern Africa at the time, and from South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, to allow SADF forces to leave their bases and repel the SWAPO incursions...
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    africafiles.org. Fryxell, Cole. To Be Born a Nation. p. 13. "INTERVIEW WITH PIK BOTHA (20 May 1997)". Gwu.edu. Retrieved 26 February 2013. Green, Sparks. Namibia:...
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  • voortrekker Francois Botha, professional boxer Louis Botha, politician P. W. Botha, former state president Pik Botha, diplomat Sandra Botha, Democratic Alliance...
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  • widely suspected to have been politically motivated. Cabinet Minister Pik Botha described it as "one of the most haunting criminal mysteries in our country...
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    respectively—Mandela met with Afrikaner politicians and generals, including P. W. Botha, Pik Botha and Constand Viljoen, persuading many to work within the democratic...
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    to be preserved and enhanced further."  South Africa: Foreign Minister Pik Botha said, "I very much hope that [Soviet developments] will neither give rise...
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    office 10 May 1994 – 14 June 1999 President Nelson Mandela Preceded by Pik Botha Succeeded by Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma 12th Secretary-General of the African...
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    of Minerals and Energy, a post that had also existed during apartheid. Pik Botha of the National Party was the minister between 1994 and 1996; he was the...
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