CAPE TOWN, South Africa – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90. Botha died at his ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of white rule at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, died at his home on Tuesday aged 90. Widely known as ...

P.W. Botha, who served as South Africa's last hard-line white president, has died at 90. Nicknamed "The Big Crocodile" for his belligerence and temper, Botha was the face of racist South Africa at the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African flags flew at half-mast on Thursday in a tribute to hardline apartheid leader P.W. Botha who died on Tuesday, aged 90. Botha oversaw one of the most brutal ...

While the streets of Die Anker remained quiet today after the death of the last but one apartheid ruler - PW Botha - condolences and mixed political tributes trickled in across the ideological ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Something remarkable happened after the death of the ruthless and reviled P.W. Botha, apartheid South Africa's last hard-line president: The black government Botha toiled ...

Tony Cox reports on the death of former South African President P.W. Botha. Botha died at age 90 at his home on the southern cape coast of South Africa Tuesday night. And now we have a death to report ...

DAVID GOODMAN is the author of "Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa," and the just-published "Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back." WHEN I WAS ...

Dumisani argues that state funeral for P.W. Botha is simply a bad idea, “We actually have a debate about whether it's appropriate to name South Africa's main international airport after O.R. Tambo, a ...

P.W. Botha, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening racial crisis as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Tuesday at his home in Wilderness, a ...