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Great Contemporaries. London: Odhams. ISBN Churchill, Winston My Early Life: — Coetzer, Owen Engelenburg, Frans Vredenrijk General Louis Botha. Van Schaik. MacBride, John Jordan, Anthony J. Meintjes, Johannes Instead, the NP's parliamentary caucus selected as leader education minister F. In Marchthe NP elected De Klerk as state president but Botha refused to resign, saying in a television address that the constitution entitled him to remain in office until March and that he was even considering running for another five-year term.

Following a series of acrimonious meetings in Cape Townand five days after UNSCR was implemented in Namibia on 1 AprilBotha and De Klerk reached a compromise: Botha would retire after the parliamentary elections in September, allowing de Klerk to take over as state president. However, Botha abruptly resigned from the state presidency on 14 Augustcomplaining that he had not been consulted by De Klerk over his scheduled visit to see President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia :.

De Klerk was sworn in as acting state president on 14 August and the following month was nominated by the electoral college to succeed Botha in a five-year term as state president. De Klerk's term saw the dismantling of the apartheid system and negotiations that eventually led to South Africa's first racially inclusive democratic elections on 27 April Botha and his wife Elize retired to their botha biography, Die Ankerin the town of Wilderness16 kilometres 9.

Botha remained largely out of sight of the media and it was widely believed that he remained opposed to many of F. He resigned from the Afrikaner Broederbond. Then-president Nelson Mandela arranged a dinner with Botha's daughters, Rozanne and Elsa, and their husbands.

Botha biography

Mandela had hoped to lobby the family so that they would persuade Botha to testify at the new government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRCset up to expose apartheid-era crimes and chaired by his cultural and political nemesis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In Augusthe was fined and given a suspended jail sentence for his refusal to testify on human rights violations and violence sanctioned by the State Security Council SSC which he, as president untilhad directed.

In JuneBotha successfully appealed to the High Court against his conviction and sentence. Botha died of a heart attack at his home in Wilderness on Tuesday 31 Octoberaged Former President Nelson Mandela was reported as botha biography "while to many Mr. Botha will remain a symbol of apartheidwe also remember him for the steps he took to pave the way towards the eventual peacefully negotiated settlement in our country".

President Thabo Mbeki announced that flags would be flown at half mast to mark the death of a former head of state. The offer of a state funeral was declined by Botha's family, and a private funeral was held on 8 November in the town of Georgewhere Botha's body was buried. Mbeki attended the funeral. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

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