BOTHA, JJ

There is not the slightest question as to its authenticity. There are even notes pasted by themselves at the back of this document in the handwriting of members of the delegation or members who attended the meeting. These are obviously notes as it’s only normally done at meetings of this nature ...

‘Elimineer,’ eliminate, ‘neutraliseer,’ neutralise, ‘uitwis,’ obliterate or wipe out.

We prepared ourselves for an onslaught against our people and on the morning of the 9th of October 1980 I heard on SABC news that a group of about 30 black people clad in PAC T-shirts had attacked whites on the Durban beach front. Since we’d already declared war against the National Party and as ...

‘We in the National Party are now sick and tired of being represented as Nazis and thugs. I warn you, if you continue to besmirch us in this way, you will unleash forces in South Africa the end result of which cannot be foreseen. I will keep law and order in South Africa and no one in the world ...

If the words ”neutralised,” ”eliminate” were used in reference to hot pursuit cross-border action or terrorist bases in neighbouring countries, then obviously ”neutralise,” ”eliminate” would include the killing of the terrorists. If the phrase ”neutralise eliminate,” was used in ...

Botha has since provided the Commission with more than 2000 pages of written answers to questions put by the TRC. But the TRC is adamant that Botha will attend a public hearing to account for his actions during his rule as state president. If he fails to appear before the TRC at 9 am on Friday the ...

Jager held that the attack was an act associated with a political motive. They however said there was no evidence that the leader of the group, Piet Botha had acted on instructions or with approval of the AWB or the Orde Boerevolk. They said that the other two members of the cell had however acted ...

One disappointing thing for many people in George is the fact that PW Botha, after the magistrate had made his ruling, went on record as saying that he doesn’t feel it necessary to apologise for anything outside the courtroom where people from Lawaaikamp, from Pacaltsdorp, from Thembulethu from ...

... ask the National Party if they thought they could get away with these lies. I want them to know that we all know the truth today. I want to ask Pik Botha, the nights you got drunk and rounded up some troops to go and shoot some SWAPOs,did you think it was all a game? Today you say you were ...

... its job. And then he walked back to his new respectable life. Another of the three friends’ names litters the Ferdi Barnard charge sheet. Callas Botha, the CCB’s man in the Transvaal is named in the Webster murder charge, the Dullah Omar attempted murder, the attempted murder of a young ...

... back to the Special Report after an absence of six weeks. Today we concentrate on two of the most controversial public figures in our country: PW Botha and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Botha’s appearance before a black magistrate in George last week, after his refusal to appear before the Truth ...

... killings were a result or gross human rights violations were a result of these kinds of actions? // I listened to what my former colleague, Pik Botha said here this morning. Somebody asked him about the letter which he wrote to Mr. De Klerk. I agree with Pik Botha, that that was the correct ...

... the weapons that were then planted. It was done in order for the SADF to justify their second attack on Gaborone. He says politicians like Pik Botha and President PW Botha knew about this elaborate plan. During the raid no weapons or literature was found in the houses that were attacked. In ...

The murder of Dr David Webster in May 1989 does not form part of Callas Botha’s TRC application, although witness after witness has told the Pretoria High Court that Barnard always maintained Botha drove the car for the drive-by shooting. The only car Callas Botha would be questioned on this week ...

I’ve known Mr. Botha for so many years and his a good friend of mine. I thought it’s good that few of his friends turned up to be with him. // As the leader of the Conservative Party I have sympathy for Mr. Botha and I’m here to support him.

Mrs. Botha heard that something about Russia would be broadcast and the programme was prevented from being broadcast and we were told that something had gone wrong with the soundtrack of the programme, because there was time required to convince Mr. and Mrs. Botha that this programme really had ...

... there was we went to Port Elizabeth security police, we were briefed by the security police of Port Elizabeth to a certain extent that a certain Botha was phoned by the Pebco Three and they wanted some financial help from him. And this Botha reassured them that he will contact his British ...

... and worried about that, because we didn’t think that that was the way to go about. // Did you at any stage give this information directly to Mr. Botha? // In that climate at the end of the eighties when this conflict was going on, at various stages I voiced the same sentiments towards Mr. ...

... of the past’ which is also often avoided or denied but which ‘has to be faced squarely.’ The Committee however refused amnesty to David Botha, the leader of the cell who ordered the bus attack saying that there was ‘no evidence that he had received instructions to carry it ...

... hurts. They believed in them. Although they blame the white people, they didn’t know. I still don’t know… and I feel ... I hope that mister Botha has mellowed and he will be humbled, he will humble himself to ...