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finally!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6104332.stm

South Africa’s last hardline white president, PW Botha, has died. He was 90.

Security staff at his home on the southern Cape coast said he died at 8pm

Captain Frikkie Lucas said: “Botha died at home, peacefully.”

PW Botha led the country through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation.

Known for his finger-wagging, confrontational style and nicknamed the ``Old Crocodile'' for his feared temper, Botha served as head of the white racist government from 1978 to 1989.

Throughout his leadership he resisted mounting pressure to release South Africa’s most famous political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, who was freed by Botha’s successor, FW de Klerk, in 1990.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a panel set up by Mandela’s government to probe abuses, concluded in 1998 that Botha was guilty of gross human rights violations by ordering killings and bombings.

But his failing health helped him escape prosecution and he spent his final years in seclusion in a seaside resort rather than in jail. He died tonight.

yay for dead racists!

yay for dead racists!

now to concentrate on the live ones...see if they can be swayed before they die...

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

now to concentrate on the live ones...see if they can be swayed before they die...

well we're not gunna be able to use botha as a warning for them. i can't quite see, "mend your ways young racist, or you'll end up dying peacefully in a seaside resort aged 90 with a personal staff attending to all your needs" really cutting it as a threat.

well we're not gunna be able to use botha as a warning for them. i can't quite see, "mend your ways young racist, or you'll end up dying peacefully in a seaside resort aged 90 with a personal staff attending to all your needs" really cutting it as a threat.

very true....him not going to prison for the rest of his natural was a bitter disappointment....

Is Pik Botha the same as Pieter Botha? I don't know much about SA history. Is there a website I can learn more? Besides wikipedia.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

No argument from this quarter.

This man should have met his fate via firing squad. Travelled though S Africa in 1993. The place was in a shambles politically. The world is a better place without people like him. Hopefully he is nice and toasty right about now in a lakeside resort on the lake of fire.

Pik Botha isnt the same person as P W Botha.

Pik Botha didnt die.

:rolleyes:

FFS

Is Pik Botha the same as Pieter Botha? I don't know much about SA history. Is there a website I can learn more? Besides wikipedia.

Pik was foreign minister, P.W. was prime minister (and before that, defense minister). The two men had no blood relations.

Obligatory condolences to his family and friends.

Another excuse to party tonight.

You're a bunch of Douchebags!

The unfortunate thing is, bigots, racists and advocates of hate are created at a rate faster than their depletion.

You're a bunch of Douchebags!

For cheering the death of a racist scumbag who led a country through one of its most terrible periods?

Yeah, if that makes me a Douchebag, then I'm proud to be one.

I appologise, nevermind.:)

Pik Botha isnt the same person as P W Botha.

Pik Botha didnt die.

:rolleyes:

FFS

FFS....yeah now that really is useful. Ever think I might have made an honest mistake?

However you are right. Pik was Foreign Minister...my bad.

I won't be shedding a tear.

Yeah!!! It's at this time I'm reminded of a certian Spitting Image sketch.

P W Botha, is giving some address when up pop two black blokes from behind, stab him in the back and start singing 'you never put a better bit of Botha on your knife'

Hehe I nearly shat meself laffin'

Yeah!!! It's at this time I'm reminded of a certian Spitting Image sketch.

P W Botha, is giving some address when up pop two black blokes from behind, stab him in the back and start singing 'you never put a better bit of Botha on your knife'

Hehe I nearly shat meself laffin'

LOL I remember that....it was a song...
I've Never met A Nice South African - sung by Spitting Image

I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru
I've had sunshine in the arctic and a swim in Tinbuktu
I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yetti in Nepal
And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall
I've met the King of China and a working Yorkshire miner
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant b***tards
Who hate black people

I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait
I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late
I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool
I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school
I've met a normal merman and a fairly modest German
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers
Who smell like baboons

I've had a close encounter of the twenty-second kind
That's when an alien spaceship disappears up your behind
I got directory enquiries after less than forty rings
I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings
I've seen a flying pig in a quite convincing wig
But I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths
With no sense of humour - ha ha

I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire
At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire
I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies
I met a man in Katmandu who claimed to have two willies
I've had a nice pot noodle but I've never had a poodle
And I've never met a nice South African.

No he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising man
Because we've never met one either
Except for Breyten Breytenbach and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)

Yes he's quite a nice South African
And he's hardly ever killed anyone
And he's not smelly at all.
That's why they put him prison.

his policy of aparthaite sucked, the current people running africa in a lotta cased have reverse discrimination as their .gov plan - that sucks too

LOL I remember that....it was a song...
I've Never met A Nice South African - sung by Spitting Image

Yeah there was that song, but the one I'm thinking of was a parady of an Anchor butter TV ad, 'You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife'

Yeah there was that song, but the one I'm thinking of was a parady of an Anchor butter TV ad, 'You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife'

yeah and I think they launch into that song right after the 'butter' statement...

it was a few years ago mind! LOL