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

Wilson’s secretary informed them that the president’s diary was full ... The so-called Dakar Safari infuriated P.W. Botha, who considered it treachery. Yet their action was a symbolic gesture ...

President PW Botha's speech on 15 August 1985 to the National Party (NP) of Natal was the turning point at which white rule in South Africa failed to turn. Botha was expected to use the speech, ...

Pik Botha later wrote that he was convinced that the land was headed for economic destruction.[3] President PW Botha now agreed to call a extraordinary meeting of ministers and deputy ministers to ...

In June 1998 former Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok testified to the TRC that in mid-1988 he had had a private meeting with State President PW Botha on a strictly need to know basis. In the ...

In his article, "Great expectations: Pres. PW Botha's Rubicon speech of 1985", Prof. Hermann Giliomee (Department of History, University of Stellenbosch) says: "President PW Botha's speech on 5 August ...

P.W. Botha, the South African Prime Minister to come to England ... Consequently, it was not surprising that Mozambique succumbed to South Africa's bludgeoning. President Masire of Botswana was right ...

You suggested that *the West should be doing more to help President Machel. As you will know, we have offered, with the agreement of Prime Minister Mugabe, training for members of the Mozambican army ...

PW Botha wanted their governments to buy into the reforms that he imagined would satisfy Africa. President Banda was his lively self and counted himself as one of those who had contributed to the ...