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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.
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...
- Botha Was First Elected to Parliament in 1948
- Botha Did Not Support F. W. de Klerk in The 1992 Apartheid Referendum
- Botha Joined The Ossewabrandwag Durn World War II
- Botha Married Anna Elizabeth Rossouw in 1943
- Botha Started His Parliamentary Career at Age 30
- Botha Was Appointed Minister of Defence in 1966
- Harry Schwarz and Helen Suzman Were Botha’s Greatest Parliamentary Opponents
- Botha Proposed A New Constitution When He Was President
- Botha undertook Some Superficial Changes to Apartheid Practices
- Barend Du Plessis Took Over Botha’s Seat as National Party’S President
First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was an outspoken opponent of black majority rule and international communism. However, his administration did make concessions towards political reform, whereas internal unrest saw widespread human rights abuses at the hands of the government.
The 1992 South African apartheid referendum was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters. The voters were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier. The result of the election was a large victory for the “yes” side, whic...
The Ossewabrandwag (OB) was an anti-British and pro-German organisation in South Africa during World War II, which opposed South African participation in the war. Pro-German Afrikaners formed the Ossewabrandwag in Bloemfontein on 4 February 1939. Ossewabrandwag which was a right-wing Afrikaner nationalist group was sympathetic to the German Nazi Pa...
Anna Elizabeth Botha was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Pieter Willem Botha, from 1984 to 1989. Anna Elizabeth Rossouw married Botha on 13 March 1943. She went by the name Elize and was the daughter of a pastor from Senekal, Dr S.H. Roussouw. They had two sons, Rossouw and Pieter Willem, and three daughters, Elanza, ...
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...
Botha was appointed by Verwoerd to become Minister of Defence. So, Botha served under the government of John Vorster, upon Verwoerd’s murder later that year. Under his 14 years in charge of the ministry, the South African Defence Force (SADF) reached a zenith, at times consuming 20% of the national budget, compared to 1.3% in 1968, and was involved...
Harry Heinz Schwarz was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa. He served as the South African Ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to majority rule. Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a ...
In 1983, Botha proposed a new constitution, which was then put to a vote by 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...
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 from living in certain areas. In 1988, a new law created racially mixed neighbourhoods but these neighbourhoods had...
On 18 January 1989, Botha (then aged 73) suffered a mild stroke which prevented him from attending a meeting with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989. Botha’s place was taken by acting president J. Christiaan Heunis. On 2 February 1989, Botha resigned as leader of the National Party (NP), anticipating his nominee, finance minister Barend ...
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.
25 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 ...
Anna Elizabeth Botha. Anna Elizabeth (Elize) Botha (1922 - 1997), gebore op 6 Mei [1] 1922 as Anna Elizabeth Rossouw, was die vrou van staatspresident Pieter Willem Botha, en gevolglik Suid-Afrika se eerste dame vanaf 1984 tot 1989. Mnr. Botha het van 1978 tot 1984 as die eerste minister van Suid-Afrika gedien. Mnr.
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.
