Pik botha biography of albert

National Party—Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs.

By his overwhelming personality and theatrical persuasion, Pik for 17 years reigned over the National Party's foreign policy.

Botha was born on 27 April in Rustenberg.

This biography reads like a novel: exciting, moving and humorous.

Biography: Botha, Roelof Frederik 'Pik'.

Botha was born on 27 April in Rustenberg.!

Pik Botha

South African politician (1932–2018)

Not to be confused with P. W. Botha.

Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, DMS MP (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history.^[1] Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally.

He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen.^[2] Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996.

While testifying at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Botha was one of the few officials to repent for his involvement in the apartheid government. He said he'd realized that apartheid was morally