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2006-11-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

South Africa's apartheid-era premier Botha dies

South Africa's former apartheid-era president PW Botha has died at his home in the Western Cape at the age of 90, the SAPA news agency reports. Mr Botha passed away peacefully in his sleep just after 8:00pm local time, at his home near the town of Wildernes, a member of his security staff told the agency. "Botha died at home, peacefully," Frikkie Lucas said.

Mr Botha, nicknamed the "Groot Krokodil" (Afrikaans for the "Great Crocodile") for his tough and uncompromising stance on politics, led the white minority rule of South Africa between 1978 and 1989. He defied the world during the turbulent and violence-wracked period and turned a deaf ear to mounting international condemnation of the horrors of the apartheid system. The National Party leader stood down in favour of FW de Klerk who later steered South Africa towards the country's first multi-racial elections in 1994, which were won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC).

Posted by Fred 2006-11-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And what impressive results the ANC has achieved!
Way better than having a job, no fear of gangrape, but separate drinking fountains.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-11-01 06:59|| 2006-11-01 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 horrors of the apartheid system.

As compared to what they 'enjoy' now?

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-01 09:22|| 2006-11-01 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if 'Ole Pic' was put in the back of the bus going through the 'pearly gates'?

Posted by smn 2006-11-01 09:23|| 2006-11-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly. He made sure an awful lot of people didn't get to die at home peacefully in his time. If he passed through the pearly gates, he's one I'll be surprised to find when I get there.

Posted by Angeash Angaish8023 2006-11-01 13:03|| 2006-11-01 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 AA - Yah, it's "fixed", alrightee.

Following that "logic", did we ask for it on 9/11?

Just askin...

Posted by .com 2006-11-01 13:10|| 2006-11-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly. He made sure an awful lot of people didn't get to die at home peacefully in his time. If he passed through the pearly gates, he's one I'll be surprised to find when I get there.
Posted by Angeash Angaish8023 2006-11-01 13:03|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

Tell me please, how OLD is the African continent and it's native people again? The Cuban and Russian trained ANC proxies that represent the SA gov't will be "fixing" for until the second coming, just like Zimbob and all the rest of the communist kak in Africa.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-11-01 14:47|| 2006-11-01 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly.

Amazing how Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia came out from Iron Curtain control in the early 90s, and are doing better than their former master, while the ANC took over a relatively advanced African nation 17 years ago and is currently running it into the ground.

'Respecting government', indeed.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-01 21:47|| 2006-11-01 21:47|| Front Page Top

#8 expect Farmin B Hard's kin to be posting soon from SA

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-01 22:09|| 2006-11-01 22:09|| Front Page Top

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