In a detailed and exclusive interview with IANS, Michael Rubin, a leading expert on the Middle East, dissects the complex ...

The Expropriation Act poses risks to property rights and economic stability. While some see it as a tool for land reform, ...

Apart from Musk, there are several others with strong South African ties in Trump’s inner circle, including David Sacks, the ...

He demanded a statement of intent before any negotiations begin and also insisted that Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders had to be released. P.W. Botha showed no inclination to do so before Mandela ...

The question is who read whom in his relationship with Mandela - the wily old revolutionary - or the young and inexperienced intelligence chief? Despite PW Botha’s warning, Barnard - like so many ...

Thatcher warned Botha that without Mandela’s release she and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany would find it progressively harder to resist further sanctions against South Africa at a time that the ...

This turned out to be a mistaken assumption. An unreconciled President On 5 July 1989 Pres. Botha and Nelson Mandela met in the President’s office. In retirement Botha claimed that he told Mandela ...

Even before Slabbert's announcement of his decision to quit parliament another important event took place: a visit to Nelson Mandela by Kobie Coetsee, Botha's minister of justice and prisons, which ...

Botha was expected to use the speech ... Asked whether that meant the unbanning of the ANC and the release of Mandela, he replied: "Not at that stage, but it would inevitably lead to that. Once you ...

Under intense pressure, in February 1985 then president PW Botha offered Mandela freedom on condition that he 'unconditionally rejected violence as a political weapon'. President Mandela spurned the ...

The PW Botha government had also made ANC support for necklacing, by Winnie Mandela and others, central to its counter-propaganda against the ANC. The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 enacted ...