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Botha, Pik
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Long-serving foreign minister in apartheid administrations, oversaw many important transitions, including the end of the Angolan Civil War and Namibian independence. In February 1986 he told a German journalist that he would gladly serve under a black president in the future. Served as minister of mineral and energy affairs in South Africa's first post-apartheid government from 1994 to 1996 under President Nelson Mandela.
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ZA-COM-00887
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