Pivotal South African politician Pik Botha dies, aged 86

Friday, October 12th 2018 - 15:48 UTC

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Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, who served as South Africa’s apartheid-era Foreign Affairs Minister for 17 years until 1994 and then joined Nelson Mandela's Cabinet, passed away at a Pretoria hospital on Thursday night. He was 86. Read full article

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Apartheid was only ever about “social engineering”. It may have been discriminatory, paternalistic and authoritarian but there was never any intention to kill anyone - and certainly not genocide. If it is to be classified as a “Crime against Humanity”, then what much more censorial term are we left with to describe Genocide? Or the Gulag? Bigger crimes against humanity..?
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