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Louis Botha
Louis Botha , 1862-1919, South African soldier and statesman. A Boer (Afrikaner), he participated in the founding (1884) of the New Republic, which joined (1888) the Transvaal. Although Botha had little previous military experience, he brilliantly commanded Boer troops in the South African War. He... Read more |
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Pieter Willem Botha
Pieter Willem Botha , 1916-2006, South African political leader. An Afrikaner and a member of the right-wing National party, he first entered parliament in 1948. Botha gained prominence as minister of defense (1966-80) and became prime minister in 1978. He initiated a limited reform of apartheid ... Read more |
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Battle of Spion Kop
Spion Kop, battle of, 1900. A battle of the second Boer War (1899–1902), famous at the time for its slaughter. The battle arose from repeated British attempts to relieve the siege of Ladysmith. The highest point of the Tugela Heights, Spion Kop (‘Lookout Mountain’), is 1,470... Read more |
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F W de Klerk
F. W. de Klerk (Frederik Willem de Klerk) , 1936-, South African statesman, president of South Africa (1989-94). Holding ministerial posts from 1978, he became (1989) acting president when P. W. Botha resigned. Recognizing that black resistance to the white power monopoly would only increase, de... Read more |
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James Barry Munnik Hertzog
James Barry Munnik Hertzog , 1866-1942, South African military and political leader. Before the South African War, in which he commanded a division of the Boer forces (1899-1902), he had been a judge in the Orange Free State. As minister of education in the Orange River Colony (1907-10), he insisted... Read more |
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Jan Christiaan Smuts
Jan Christiaan Smuts , 1870-1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony. Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he was educated at Victoria College (at Stellenbosch) and at Cambridge, where he won highest honors in law. In 1895 he was admitted to the Cape Colony... Read more |
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Durban
Durban , city (1991 pop. 473,826), KwaZulu-Natal, E South Africa, on Natal Bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean. Durban is an industrial center, a major seaport, and a year-round resort. Industries include sugar refining, shipbuilding and ship repairing, petroleum refining, fishing, automobile assembly,... Read more |
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Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in... Read more |
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Ludo
LudoRock group Ludo was formed during lead singer Andrew Volpe's sophomore year of college, when, he wrote on the Island Records Web site, "I finally accepted that all I wanted to do in life was rock." He soon recruited Tim Ferrell, another guitarist. Despite the fact that they were still in... Read more |
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Spectre of PW Botha haunts secrecy debate; The ANC government is turning the...
...head of the government, PW Botha, in office for less than...And then he walked out of Botha's office." When he left...with its silencing plan, expect similar consequences. The...tirades, for example. Botha called the Rand Daily Mail... |
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Slabbert was highly regarded by his opponents, except president PW Botha.(News)
...Slabbert himself certainly did not expect to win. He had never been much attracted...political opponents, except president PW Botha, who disliked him intensely and made...way for negotiations, in spite of Botha's angry broadsides, have been acknowledged... |
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Acknowledge PW's good!(News)
...clean? The late ex-State President PW Botha, pictured, was lambasted locally...capitalists. Despite our differences, PW replied to a few of my letters, and...whatever their motives. If we always expect right reasons from human, we will... |
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Seeing through PW.(News)
IT'S AN uncomfortable thought that PW Botha is still around, though not as formidable as he used to be. The...black. Maybe so, but unless he spruces up the house soon he can expect a chilly reception. |
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The day our wall fell.(News)
...Did we think President PW Botha would release Nelson Mandela...Govan Mbeki in 1988 was Botha's model for Mandela...banned him. What did they expect him to do? "Go home and...terms of his release with Botha's officials. Like a captain... |
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Gone is euphoria of '94; people now expect more; He coined the expression...
...to the chagrin of former president PW Botha, and the communists were definitely...admits that perhaps it was naive to expect the 1994 elections to provide a magic...apartheid legislation, so how can we expect that we will magically be transformed... |
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I will not be wasting any tears over the Krokodil.(News)
The natural death of PW Botha brought to an end one of...At the height of power, PW and his ills thought the...was the difference between Botha and Hitler? Human rights...Karma, if one sows evil, expect to reap evil, even if it... |
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Faith in financial system may never be restored.(News)
...many times, but not yet come. We can expect it to be announced or predicted at...majority to create a better society and by PW Botha's crushing of their movement in the 1980s. Botha's repression and the negotiated settlement... |
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The days when men were men and Elize was Naas.(News)
...knew about it. I would not expect anything less from a man...Pope to beatify the late PW Botha, die grootste pain in the...obsequy telling us that Botha ought to get a stool in...story worth telling about Botha is the d |
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There's nothing new under the SA sun.(News)
...head of the government, PW Botha, in office for less than...And then he walked out of Botha's office." When he left...with its silencing plan, expect similar consequences. The...tirades, for |example. Botha called the Rand Daily Mail... |
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