Pik Botha’s life’s work was dedicated to the protection and entrenchment of apartheid. Media 24/Alet Pretorius October 23, 2018 Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid James Hamill, University of Leicester The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
Pik Botha played a central role in the intricate talks that eventually led to Namibia’s independence. Foto24/Nasief Manie October 16, 2018 Pik Botha and Namibia: ambiguities and contradictions Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
Bernoldus Niemand (aka James Phillips) at the Market Theatre Warehouse in Johannesburg, 1989. John Hogg/The Times July 18, 2017 The war that provided the soundtrack for subversive Afrikaans rock Schalk van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University 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.