Niel Barnard: head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service ​Niel Barnard, who has died aged 75, was head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and right-hand man ...

In June 1984 Margaret Thatcher welcomed South Africa's P. W. Botha to Chequers. It was the first time a British Prime ...

Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha was ousted by top lieutenants who lost confidence in his ability to keep Silicon Valley’s most ...

The idea that white South Africans face an existential threat emerged in the violent final decade of apartheid rule. It was a ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pik Botha, who became the global face of South Africa's reviled apartheid government as Pretoria's minister of foreign affairs, has died aged 86 after a lengthy illness, the ...

South Africa's last hard-line white president has died. P.W. Botha was 90. He oversaw South Africa's worst racial violence, and international isolation, in the years 1978 to 1989. But Nelson Mandela ...

P.W. Botha, who served as South Africa's last hard-line white president, has died at 90. Nicknamed "The Big Crocodile" for his belligerence and temper, Botha was the face of racist South Africa at the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Something remarkable happened after the death of the ruthless and reviled P.W. Botha, apartheid South Africa's last hard-line president: The black government Botha toiled ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former President Nelson Mandela said today that the death of P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era leader who resisted pressure to release Mandela in the 1980s, should serve as a ...