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Acclaimed South African heldentenor Johan Botha died Thursday morning in Vienna after a critical battle with cancer. He was 51. Known for his fluid musicality and gargantuan tenor sound, Botha’s ...

JOHANNESBURG – Roelof "Pik" Botha, the last foreign minister of South Africa's apartheid era and a contradictory figure who staunchly defended white minority rule but recognized that change was ...

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Pik Botha, South Africa’s longtime foreign minister, whose defense of apartheid was tempered by flashes of recognition of the system’s injustice, and who went on to serve in Nelson Mandela’s unity ...

Johan Botha, a South African tenor known to patrons of the world’s most prestigious opera houses for the unusual combination of dramatic force and lyrical grace that he brought to a seemingly ...

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 ...

South Africa’s Wim Botha is a both-and artist. Acknowledging the fundamental multiplicity of all things, his works are clear and ambiguous at once, open to not just varied but contradictory ...

OTTAWA, Ontario – Barend Botha holds the 36-hole lead of the Commissionaires Ottawa Open at 16-under after carding a 7-under 65 in the second round at Eagle Creek Golf Club. Botha made seven birdies ...

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Reporting from JOHANNESBURG — Roelof “Pik” Botha, the last foreign minister of South Africa’s apartheid era and a contradictory figure who staunchly defended white minority rule but recognized that ...

Roelof “Pik” Botha, who spent decades at the center of South Africa’s political and diplomatic life as the last foreign minister under apartheid rule and who later served in the cabinet of the country ...