P.W. Botha, 90, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening political crisis and racial violence as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Oct. 31 at ...

Learn more. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday.

P.W. Botha, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening racial crisis as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Tuesday at his home in Wilderness ...

P.W. Botha was 90. He oversaw South Africa's worst racial violence ... noted Botha also played a role in the end of the country's apartheid government. Renee Montagne talks to former South ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90. Botha died ...

President P.W. Botha, when he said in 1986 that South Africa might one day have a black leader. Pik Botha, who was not related to the apartheid-era president, later served as minister of mineral ...

By 1978, mounting international pressure coupled with a growing internal resistance movement made it clear to apartheid South Africa’s new Prime Minister P.W. Botha that, in his words ...