Like apartheid-era South African whites, today’s Republicans will need to choose between an accommodation with the coming ...

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

The global acclaim for Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, rests mainly on its call for a ...

In reality though P.W. Botha more than F.W. de Klerk represents the bridge between the old and the new South Africa. As a cabinet minister he was zealous in executing the apartheid policy in ...

Hermann Giliomee writes on the secret transcript of the cabinet meeting held before PW Botha’s disastrous speech in 1985 In 1984 a Tricameral Parliament for whites, coloured people and Asians was ...

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, ...

He started working as a young diplomat during the government of Hendrik Verwoerd. During his time under B.J. “John” Vorster, P.W. Botha, F.W. de Klerk and N.R. “Nelson” Mandela, Eksteen served as an ...

In fact, the year 1989 should win hands down. It was the year in which Pres P.W. Botha suffered a serious stroke, which made it impossible to continue to reject a full-fledged democratic settlement.

I am writing to express our sense of shock t hat you and your government should have seen fit to invite Mr . P.W. Botha, the South African Prime Minister to come to England as an official guest of ...

Despite PW Botha’s warning, Barnard - like so many others - was mesmerised by Mandela and regarded him - and treated him - almost from their first meeting as the President-in-waiting. The defining ...

To tens of millions of then oppressed black and progressive South Africans, Thatcher came across as the West's biggest defender of the racist apartheid dictatorship and of the apartheid prime minister ...