18 NOVEMBER 2006, Page 30

Too much Botha

From Reinier Botha

Sir: P.W. Botha’s death prompts me to record that for many of us P.W. Botha was an embarrassment, as was his foreign minister Pik Botha. There was only one Botha who has done our family proud, the Boer War era general, our first prime minister, Jan Smuts’s mentor and a true statesman Louis Botha.

Reinier Botha

Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa