Tag: apartheid

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 19:12 UTC

  South Africa's last white president dies of lung condition

  

  Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last white man ever to rule the country, has died Thursday of mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer, at his home near Cape Town. He was 85.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 15:48 UTC

  Pivotal South African politician Pik Botha dies, aged 86

  

  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.

• Friday, December 6th 2013 - 07:10 UTC

  World joins in grief and admiration for South Africa's greatest, Madiba

  

  Former South African president and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, Nelson Mandela, has passed away in his home following a long fight against illness, current head of state Jacob Zuma revealed on Thursday in a press conference.