Pik Botha and his times

A biography of Pik Botha, one of South Africa's most colourful public figures, and at a stage the longest serving Foreign Minister in the world.

This biography reads like a novel: exciting, moving and humorous. It is the story of an inspiring politician who wrote verses on the back of cigarette boxes, a minister with the finesse of a battering ram, a peacemaker, an ambassador who never had to take 'No' for an answer, and a man who was happiest when sitting next to a campfire in the bush. And it is far more. Theresa Papenfus depicts Botha against the broader political and social background of his time. This work is also an account of a tempestuous period in South African history.