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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 yesterday. He was 90. Botha died at ...

THE MAN who presided over the worst era of apartheid, PW Botha, died unrepentant this week. He consistently denied any wrongdoing in his 10 years as head of state in South Africa from 1978 to 1989 and ...

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 ...