P. W. Botha

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human politician prime minister state president

P. W. Botha was a hardline apartheid-era South African leader who served as prime minister and later as the country’s first executive state president, overseeing intensified repression and limited reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.

Aliases (2)

Botha ×1
Pieter Willem Botha ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → politician → prime minister → state president →
birthDate	1916-01-12 →
birthPlace	Paul Roux, Orange Free State →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
countryOfCitizenship	South Africa →
deathDate	2006-10-31 →
deathPlace	Wilderness, Western Cape, South Africa →
education	Grey College, Bloemfontein → University of the Orange Free State (incomplete) →
ethnicGroup	Afrikaner →
familyName	Botha →
fullName	Pieter Willem Botha →
givenName	Pieter → Pieter Willem →
ideology	Afrikaner nationalism → apartheid →
implementedPolicy	Total Strategy security doctrine → regional military interventions in Southern Africa →
introducedReform	limited power-sharing with Coloured and Indian chambers →
knownFor	hardline enforcement of apartheid → introduction of the 1983 Tricameral Parliament → refusal to testify fully before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission → state of emergency policies in the 1980s →
languageSpoken	Afrikaans → English →
memberOf	House of Assembly of South Africa →
militaryRank	commando leader (World War II home forces) →
nickname	Die Groot Krokodil → PW →
numberOfChildren	3 →
officeEnd	Prime Minister of South Africa 1984 → State President of South Africa 1989 →
officeStart	Prime Minister of South Africa 1978 → State President of South Africa 1984 →
opposedBy	African National Congress → United Democratic Front →
politicalParty	National Party →
positionHeld	Leader of the National Party → Member of Parliament of South Africa → Minister of Defence of South Africa → Prime Minister of South Africa → State President of South Africa →
predecessor	B. J. Vorster →
religion	Dutch Reformed Church →
representedDistrict	George →
spouse	Elize Botha →
successor	F. W. de Klerk →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
National Party → National Party (South Africa) →	notableLeader
P. W. Botha ("Botha") →	familyName
P. W. Botha ("Pieter Willem Botha") →	fullName
F. W. de Klerk →	predecessor
South African general election, 1989 →	previousStatePresident
National Party (South Africa) →	primeMinisterFrom
National Party (South Africa) →	statePresidentFrom