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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. He was considered a liberal – at least in comparison to others in the ruling National Party and among the Afrikaner community – but the bulk of his career was spent defending South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation against foreign criticism.

Botha was nicknamed 'Pik' because of a perceived likeness to a penguin in his stance, accentuated when he wore a suit.He was not related to Prime Minister P. W. Botha, under whom he served as foreign minister.



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✵ 27. April 1932 – 12. October 2018
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Famous Pik Botha Quotes

“A new era has begun in South Africa. My government is removing racial discrimination. We want to be accepted by our African brothers.”

Pik Botha

At the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
Quoted in The Daily Maverick newspaper, 2 September 2011 http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-09-02-roelof-pik-botha-the-ultimate-survivor

“If we don't stand together, we will never catch up and the industrialised nations won't care. I predict it here today as your brother.”

Pik Botha

at the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
Quoted in Shaun Johnson, Strange Days Indeed (1993), p. 39

“Senator, some of us strongly believe that Americans are the last people that can go around the world preaching morality. What we are doing to the blacks in Africa today is what you have already done and continue to do to the American Indian.”

Pik Botha

To Senator Ted Kennedy
Quoted in The Namibian newspaper, 27 Apr 2011 http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=28&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=80921&no_cache=1

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