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Pieter Willem Botha | South African History Online  During the war his mother was interned in a British concentration camp . ... Pieter Willem Botha commonly known as "PW" an. First name: Pieter. Last name: Botha ... South Africa became a republic on 31 May 1961. ... offered Botha a position in his Cabinet as Minister of Community Development and Coloured Affairs.
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Leaders Flashcards | Quizlet  TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER---In 1961 this country's P.W. Botha assumed his first cabinet position--Minister of Coloured Affairs. South Africa.
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P. W. Botha - Wikipedia  Pieter Willem Botha, DMS (12 January 1916  31 October 2006), commonly known as "P. W." ... In 1958 Botha was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs by Hendrik Verwoerd, and in 1961 advanced to Minister of Coloured Affairs. ... As Prime Minister and later State President, his greatest parliamentary opponents...
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PW Botha, Defender of Apartheid, Is Dead at 90 - The New York Times  Nov 1, 2006 ... P. W. Botha, the South African leader who struggled vainly to preserve ... At the same time, Mr. Botha, who first achieved national prominence as ... to appear weak within his own country, the journalist Allister Sparks wrote in ... In 1961, he became the minister of colored affairs; in 1966, minister of defense.
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Pieter Willem (P.W.) Botha - South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid  Oct 31, 2006 ... In 1934 Botha began his law studies at Grey University College, ... the Cape National Party's special Committee of Inquiry into Coloured Affairs, ... South Africa became a republic on 31 May 1961. In August of that year Prime Minister Verwoerd offered Botha a position in his Cabinet as Minister of Community...
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Ghana's Dubious Decolonization Distinction - The First Independent ...  May 2, 2013 ... The second country on the list, South Africa, was a British Colony but became independent in 1910. ... the type of government that prevailed after that independence was gained. ... The narrative of the first African country to receive independence would ... As Nkrumah noted on Ghana's independence,
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FW de Klerk - Biography.com  Sep 12, 2014 ... Follow the work of former South African President F.W. de Klerk, ... In 1986, he became leader of the House of Assembly. ... Two years later, de Klerk and Nelson Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their anti-apartheid ... De Klerk quickly succeeded Botha, first as head of the National...
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State President of South Africa - Wikipedia  Standard of the State President (19841994). State President (Afrikaans: Staatspresident) was the title of South Africa's head of state from 1961 to 1994. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1961, and ... The last Prime Minister, P. W. Botha, was elected as the first State President. The State...
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James Ramsay MacDonald facts, information, pictures ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about James Ramsay MacDonald at ... As prime minister and foreign secretary in the first Labour government of 1924 he went a long ... He joined the Rainbow Circle, worked as secretary to a Liberal MP, and ... Labour Representation Committee which became the Labour Party in 1906.
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Robert C. Weaver, 89, First Black Cabinet Member, Dies - The New ...  Jul 19, 1997 ... Dr Robert C Weaver, first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and first black person appointed to the Cabinet, died ... Dr. Weaver had made a name for himself in the 1930's and 40's as an ... The following year, the President appointed him administrator of the Housing and Home ... Justice Dept.
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Antonio de Oliveira Salazar | prime minister of Portugal | Britannica ...  Portuguese economist, who served as prime minister of Portugal for 36 years (193268). ... cabinet post of minister of finance, but he could not obtain his own conditions. In 1928 General Antnio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, as president, offered ... Gaining in power, Salazar was named prime minister by Carmona on July 5,...
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Pan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011 | South African History ...  May 4, 2012 ... 23 March, Robert Sobukwe, president of the PAC, and P.K Leballo, its national ... Joe Molefi and ZB Molote leave South Africa to exile in Lesotho in order to avoid arrest. ... 1963: February, Five white people are killed by Poqo members at .... He studied for his law degree while he was under banning orders.
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THE FEDS' BRUSH WITH ART - New Orleans Magazine - October ...  Among the P.W.A. projects in New Orleans was the History of Printing mural ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal provided an alphabet soup of programs. ... Two officials of the U.S. Treasury Department (which oversaw government ... (later changed to Projects) Administration (W.P.A.) Federal Art Project.
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against Apartheid  3 October 1994 ... Key dates in the UN campaign against apartheid: ... 1 April 1960  The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopted Resolution 134 ... The arms embargo was made mandatory on 4 November 1977. ... 10 May 1994  South Africa's first democratically elected non-racial government took...
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Kwame Nkrumah - Wikipedia  Kwame Nkrumah PC led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president. Nkrumah first gained power as leader of the colonial Gold Coast, and held it .... Trotskyist intellectual cohort. Nkrumah later credited James with teaching him "how an underground movement worked".
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Year one of the YudhoyonoKalla duumvirate: Bulletin of ...  To be specific: in many policy areas, President Yudhoyono sets broad goals and .... junior partner until the Guided Democracy regime was overthrown in 1965.
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Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member - Jan 13 ...  Presidential. 1966. Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member ... cabinet member, making Robert C. Weaver head of the Department of Housing ... head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency under President John F. Kennedy. .... Manuel, born in America to British parents, established himself as a career...
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Churchill's Capture, Imprisonment and Escape - The British Empire  Churchill, the reporter, was on an armoured train, loaded with British soldiers, performing a ... The Boers then opened up with field guns and rifle fire from a vantage position. ... The man with the rifle was Boer commander General Louis Botha- more of him later. .... Louis Botha became South Africa's Prime Minister in 1910.
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Lester B. Pearson | prime minister of Canada | Britannica.com  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957. ... He joined the Canadian foreign service in 1928 and became first secretary in the Department of External Affairs. ... Pearson resigned as prime minister in 1968 and retired from politics. ... As minister of justice, Trudeau won passage of three unpopular social welfare.
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Setting a Tone for History in South Africa - TIME's Annual Journey ...  Jun 18, 2009 ... The meeting between F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela made a miracle ... December 13, Cape Town, South Africa ... It is July 5, 1989. ... President and a black revolutionary leader took the first steps ... lift the ban on Mandela's party, the African National Congress (ANC), ... "The first time I met Mandela .
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Apartheid - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 1948, its all-white ... to apartheid within and outside of South Africa, its laws remained in effect for the better ... become central aspects of South African policy long before apartheid began. ... and convinced the government to strengthen its policies of racial segregation.