South Africa`s offer to re-establish a national assembly to administer Namibia and help lead the territory to independence was rejected Friday by SWAPO, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Pieter Botha said Wednesday he would call an early general election for the white electorate in 1987, the first polls for white voters in six years. Sources in ...

President Pieter Botha, stressing his commitment to political and social reforms, said Thursday political rights must be extended to all South Africans, including the nation’s black majority. Speaking ...

President Pieter Botha offered his country`s disfranchised blacks a cautiously worded reform package Friday but failed to deal with their major grievances. At the same time he made a bizarre proposal ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Pieter Botha, returning from a trip abroad, refused to comment Saturday on a South African strike against a rebel base in Angola because he was “not properly ...

A Canadian diver died Tuesday while spearfishing near a reef off Key West, according to Florida Keys deputies. Pieter Lodewikus Botha, 28, of Alberta was freediving with a group near Western Dry Rocks ...

Pieter Willem Botha, DMS (12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006), commonly known as P. W. and Afrikaans: Die Groot Krokodil (The Big Crocodile), was a South African politician. He served as the last Prime ...