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Anna Elizabeth Botha (née Rossouw; 6 May 1922 – 6 June 1997) was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Pieter Willem Botha, from 1984 to 1989. From 1978 to 1984 Botha served as Prime Minister of South Africa. Anna Elizabeth Rossouw married Botha on 13 March 1943.
5 de abr. de 2023 · Ans Botha: The Legendary Coach Who Trusts Her Intuition to Guide Athletes to Success - Runner's Tribe. By. Runnerstribe Admin. - April 5, 2023. Ans Botha is a celebrated coach in South African athletics, having spent over five decades shaping the sport.
- Early Life and Education
- Parliamentary Career
- State President
- Apartheid Government
- Fall from Power
- Retirement
- Death
- Awards
- Further Reading
Pieter Willem Botha was born on a farm in the Paul Roux district of the Orange Free State Province (now Free State Province), the son of Afrikaner parents. His father, Pieter Willem Botha Sr., fought as a commando against the British in the Second Boer War. His mother, Hendrina Christina Botha (née de Wet), was interned in a British concentration c...
At age 30, Botha was elected head of the National Party Youth in 1946, and two years later was elected to the House of Assembly as representative of George in the southern Cape Province in the general election which saw the beginning of the National Party's 46-year tenure in power. His opponent in the 1948 election was JP Marais from the United Par...
In 1983, Botha proposed a new constitution, which was then put to a vote of the white population. Though it did not implement a federal system as established in 1961, it implemented what was ostensibly a power-sharing agreement with Coloureds and Indians. The new constitution created two new houses of parliament alongside the existing, white-only H...
Botha undertook some changes to apartheid practices, but these were rejected by many as superficial and inadequate. He legalised interracial marriage and miscegenation, both completely banned since the late 1940s. The constitutional prohibition on multiracial political parties was lifted. He also relaxed the Group Areas Act, which barred non-whites...
State President Botha's loss of influence can be directly attributed to decisions taken at the Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev summit of the leaders of the US and the Soviet Union in Moscow (29 May – 1 June 1988) that paved the way to resolving the problem of Namibia which, according to foreign minister Pik Botha, was destabilising the region and "...
Botha and his wife Elize retired to their home, Die Anker, in the town of Wilderness, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the city of George and located on the Indian Ocean coast of the Western Cape. Elize died in 1997, and he later married Barbara Robertson, a legal secretary 25 years his junior, on 22 June 1998. Botha remained largely out of sight of the...
Botha died of a heart attack at his home in Wilderness on Tuesday 31 October 2006, aged 90. His death was met with magnanimity by many of his former opponents. Former President Nelson Mandela was reported as saying "while to many Mr. Botha will remain a symbol of apartheid, we also remember him for the steps he took to pave the way towards the even...
Taiwan: Order of Propitious Cloudswith Special Grand Cordon (1980)"Fighter and Reformer: Extracts from the Speeches of P. W. Botha", Compiled by J.J.J. Scholtz, Published: Bureau for Information, Pretoria, 198925 de nov. de 2017 · Botha’s recipe for coaching success: patience, endurance and perseverance. Anna Botha in Monaco ahead of the IAAF Athletics Awards 2017 (© Giancarlo Colombo) “Life,” says Anna Botha, “isn’t about the years you’re living; it’s about what you contributed in those years to your fellow human beings.”. At the age of 75 ...
6 de mai. de 2016 · Anna Elizabeth Botha, born on 6 May 1922 as Anna Elizabeth Rossouw, was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Pieter Willem Botha, from 1984 to 1989. From 1978 to 1984 P.W. Botha served as Prime Minister of South Africa.
1 de nov. de 2006 · A year earlier, Mr. Botha married Anna Elizabeth Rossouw, who went by the name Elise and who died in 1997. They had two sons, Rossouw and Pieter Willem, and three daughters, Elanza, Amelia...
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