The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
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Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
Rock music against military conscription during 1980s South Africa resonated with wider fault lines in Afrikaner society - this as the apartheid regime’s grip on power started to slip.
