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About Pik Botha
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen. Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Nelson Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996.
Everything about Pik Botha →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, lawyer, minister
- Position held
- Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, member of the National Assembly of South Africa, South African Ambassador to the United States, member of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Born
- April 27, 1932
- Died
- October 12, 2018