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RU: Spencer's kicking questioned by Botha; Koen convinced
; ...Spencer's kicking questioned by Botha; Koen convinced By Daniel Gilhooly...South African sharpshooter Louis Koen says Carlos Spencer's...former Springbok great Naas Botha is not convinced. Botha, who kicked 304 points in 28...handle the heaviest pressure, Botha said. Come that one magical...
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Botha to take page from Holyfield book
; ...got to get (Tyson) back on his heels and make him miss," Botha said. "You've got to push him around, wrestle him and hold...hitting him. You have to tie him up, move away and counter." Botha, 30, of South Africa, weighed 233 for the fight, which...experts, who expected him to weigh in the high 220s. But ...
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Too much Botha
; From Reinier Botha Sir: P.W. Botha's death prompts me to record that for many of us P.W. Botha was an embarrassment, as was his foreign minister Pik Botha. There was only one Botha who has done our family proud, the Boer War era general...prime minister, Jan Smuts's mentor and a true statesman ...
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Botha backs pressure kicker
; Springboks great Naas Botha believes goal- kicking may decide the...Mehrtens' class for that one magical moment. Botha -- one of the greatest goal- kickers...general play. Current Springbok goal-kicker Louis Koen believed Spencer was a good enough kicker to win the World Cup, but Botha said the ...
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Saartjie Botha’s name keeps on popping up.(Life)
; ...Oudtshoorn later this month and you’ll spot Saartjie Botha’s name associated, in one way or another, with at least five of the most significant productions on offer. Botha’s 2006 drama, Altyd Jonker – based...Vleis, Rys en Aartappels (Meat, Rice and Potatoes) in 2001, ...
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P. W. BOTHA ; President of South Africa whose tentative reforms were disabled by his adherence to apartheid
; ...most powerful armies on the continent. At the same time, Botha joined hands with South Africa's private sector and through...relationship with the military was to have a fundamental impact on Botha's fortunes. It placed him in a powerful position to take...arbiter of political dispute. On 28 September 1975, ...
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S. Africa to ease curbs // Botha vows pass laws controlling blacks will be scrapped
; ...scrapped by July 1, President Pieter W. Botha said yesterday. The announcement was...apartheid laws. In the advertisement, Botha addressed South Africans in the form...The deputy minister of information, Louis Nel, said the annoucement was categorical...scrapped and would not be replaced. Botha ...
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BOTHA ASSAILED FOR HALTING THE MURDER TRIAL OF SIX SOLDIERS
; ...complicity in a 1984 mob killing of a black town councilor. Botha said his policy was to avoid interfering with the judicial...criminology professor at the University of Cape Town, said Botha's intervention was the worst type of executive interfence...Dalling, a Progressive Federal member of Parliament, said ...
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Botha Assailed for Halting Trial;S. African Opposition Charges Double Standard in Clemency Offers
; ...territory of Namibia. Opposition members of Parliament charged Botha with duplicity for intervening in the murder trial just...the opposition Progressive Federal Party, today accused Botha of applying a double standard in the president's right...had been "put above the ordinary law of the country." Botha ...
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SA truth inquiry set to subpoena PW Botha
; ...ever before to the old National Party cabinet and to Mr Botha. It now looks increasingly likely that the former president...would be politically delicate and socially divisive. Mr Botha refuses to recognise the commission. Yesterday's evidence undermines assertions by Mr Botha's successor, FW de Klerk, ...
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