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Pik Botha
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, "DMS" (d. 27 Nisan 1932 – ö. 12 Ekim 2018), Güney Afrikalı siyasetçidir. Apartheid döneminin son yıllarında Güney Afrika dışişleri bakanı olarak görev yaptı.
Botha'ya "Pik" lakabı ("pikkewyn" olarak yazılır ve Afrika dilinde "penguen" anlamına gelmekte) kendisine verilmiştir. Devamlı giydiği siyah takım elbisesiyle bu ismin kendisine verilmesi vurgulu bir benzerlik taşımıştır.[1]
2000 yılında Botha, Güney Afrika Başkanı Nelson Mandela ve Thabo Mbeki'ye desteğini açıkladı.[2]
Güney Afrikalı siyasetçi Pik Botha 12 Ekim 2018'de Pretoria kentinde 86 yaşında ölmüştür.[3]
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Pik Botha, international face of apartheid, dies at 86
Pik Botha, a key figure in South Africa's transition from apartheid, died at the age of 86, his son said Friday. The longest-serving foreign minister in the world, Botha spent more than a decade defending apartheid, despite being considered a reformer and then serving in Nelson Mandela's first post-apartheid government.
Roelof Frederik Botha was born in 1932, and began his career as a diplomat in South Africa's embassies in Sweden, Washington, and to the United Nations before becoming a politician.
Botha was foreign minister from 1977 to the end of white rule in 1994. He spent the bulk of his career defending South Africa's brutal, racist apartheid regime to the rest of the world.
He also spoke up for minority rights at times, however, earning the rebuke of President P.W. Botha (no relation) in 1986 when he said: "As long as we can agree in a suitable way on the protection of minority rights without a racial sting ... then it would possibly become unavoidable that in future you might have a black president of th
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Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a school principal. Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool, Potchefstroom, and was a good all-round pupil, becoming chairman of debating society, head of the Voortrekkers, a member of the rugby team, an officer in the school cadets, and was top of his class.
He completed his B.A. LL.B at the University of Pretoria and in February 1953, he joined the South African Department of Foreign Affairs. In June 1956 he was transferred to the South African Mission in Stockholm, Sweden, as third secretary, and in January 1960, he moved on to the South African Embassy in Cologne, West Germany. Following his transfer back to Pretoria in January 1963 he became a member of the South African legal team in the South West African case (Ethiopia and Liberia vs South Africa) at the international Court of Justice, The Hague, from 1963-66. He represented the South African Government as Agent in the case from 1965-66 and it was at this time that he first became publicly known
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