# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pik-botha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:12:25.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pik-botha"
name: "Pik Botha"
slug: "pik-botha"
description: "Roelof Frederik \"Pik\" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen. Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Nelson Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996."
tagline: "South African politician (1932-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pik_Botha.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1932-04-27"
deathDate: "2018-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.22
  momentum:             0.1293103448275862
  historical:           21.127476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  250
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    title: "Pik Botha"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump