Tag: Pik Botha

• 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.