Pieter Willem Botha Quotes
Accept where I am going or I will not lead you.
This was an amazing statement for a politician to make in a country where he needed votes to be reelected. The Afrikaners of South Africa were so paranoid about the possibility of their minority domination over the majority Blacks, that they voted overwhelmingly for Botha even though many were not sure of his policies and wanted a change. Botha was the “devil they knew” as opposed to a “devil they did not know”.
Pieter Willem Botha, 1916-2006, Prime Minister & President of South Africa, Address, Transvaal NP Congress, September 18, 1979
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A large part of German propaganda was directed not only to Germans and the Axis, but one target was Englishmen and Americans. One objective was to try and cause strains in the amazingly strong British-American Alliance. In this cartoon Roosevelt—the large adult figure—is leading the small child, Churchill, by the hand. Many British were sensitive about this possibility.
Pieter Willem Botha, DMS, commonly known as P. W. and Afrikaans: Die Groot Krokodil (The Great Crocodile), was a South African politician. He served as the last Prime Minister from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive State President from 1984 to 1989.
