COMPILATION: #3 From 1984 to 1997 PW BOTHA STATE PRESIDENT INAUGURATION NKOMATI ACCORD NP CONFERENCE MOUNT MORIA ZCC CABINET KING GOODWILL FUNERAL OF WIFE HOME GEORGE AFTERMATH KHOTSO HOUSE BOMB

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  • Title: COMPILATION: #3 From 1984 to 1997 PW BOTHA STATE PRESIDENT INAUGURATION NKOMATI ACCORD NP CONFERENCE MOUNT MORIA ZCC CABINET KING GOODWILL FUNERAL OF WIFE HOME GEORGE AFTERMATH KHOTSO HOUSE BOMB
  • Date: 1st November 2001
  • Summary: COMPILATION: #3 From 1984 to 1997 PW BOTHA STATE PRESIDENT INAUGURATION NKOMATI ACCORD NP CONFERENCE MOUNT MORIA ZCC CABINET KING GOODWILL FUNERAL OF WIFE HOME GEORGE AFTERMATH KHOTSO HOUSE BOMB
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  • Story Text:COMPILATION #3 PW BOTHA From 1984 to 1997

    1984:
    01.54.10 CAPE TOWN: OPENING OF PARLIAMENT Motorcade arriving PW & wife Elize getting out to take salute & anthem
    01.55.06 PW holding hat on chest
    01.56.27 Going inside - wide of Parliament buildings
    01.56.38 Coming back out on red carpet - anthems ahgain
    01.57.50 Waiting for motorcade to stop
    01.58.48 Interior scenes Chamber - Trumpets - carrying mace - followed by Botha & Heunis?
    01.59.29 House praying in Afrikaans
    01.59.46 Old South African flags outside Parliamnet - some journalists hanging around

    MARCH 1984 SIGNING OF THE NKOMATI ACCORD WITH SAMORA MACHEL OF MOZAMBIQUE & PW BOTHA ON A TRAIN
    02.00.11 Samora Machel in military uniform meeting PW Botha outside train
    02.00.25 PW & Samora together inside coach
    02.00.28 Journalists / press
    02.00.34 PW sitting next to Pk Botha Minister of Foerign Affairs talking across the table to Samora seated next to Joachim Chissano
    02.00.43 Soldiers marching bayonettes
    02.00.49 Wide view of meeting area
    02.00.58 PW & Samora standing together anthems
    02.01.01 Samora Machel speech: - crowd waving handflags
    02.01.16 Soundbite PW: We have opted for the road of peace.
    02.01.23 Mozambican flag in wind
    02.01.26 Signing agreement

    1988: 40TH NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE:
    02.01.52 PW BOTHA DOORSTOPPED: Will you be releasing Mr Mandela in the near future? PW REPLYING SARCASTICALLY I am going to make a speech. If you are interested you can come and listen.
    02.02.03 PW WALKING INTO HALL FOR NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE
    02.02.11 PW & wife Elize seated at main table on stage listening
    02.02.33 Closing eyes and bowing head in prayer

    DATE UNKOWN:
    02.02.40 AT FUNERAL OF WIFE ELIZE
    02.02.59 Sad family
    02.03.32 Archbishop Desmond Tutu conveying condolences to Botha - holding his hands at the church
    02.04.37 Bereaved walking behind hearse
    02.05.11 Botha at graveside - praying
    02.05.49 Stretching hand toward coffin - crying

    DECEMBER 5, 1997: GEORGE BOTHA'S HOME re: Refusal to testify at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission [ex-SABC]
    02.06.28 PW BOTHA'S HOUSE IN THE WILDERNESS "Die Anker"
    02.06.49 Coming out into garden with walking stick wearing hat

    1984: PARLIAMENT CAPE TOWN ELECTED AS STATE PRESIDENT
    02.07.38 Nominations by Chamber, nominating Pieter Willem Botha
    02.08.27 Speaker reading: Only one candidate has been nominated namely mr Pieter Willem Botha. The nomination is in order and I.t.o .. of Constitution I aaccordingly declare mr PW Botha duly elected State President of the republic of South Africa.
    02.09.07 Scene s of members inside Chamber

    DATE UNKOWN: DELIVERING A SPEECH
    02.09.11 I said every cent paid out to me was made possible by parliamentary decision.
    02.09.21 FINGER-POINTING En nou gaan ek verder TRANSLATION Anybody who repeats the Cape Times story is a public liar. REPEAT IN ENGLISH
    02.10.24 The Star went on and The Star said .. A further disclosure is that Mr Botha's gratuity has nothing to do with his 36 years in Parliament. The reason put forward for the payment of the lump sum is due to him because he ceased to hold Office of Prime Minister.
    02.11.06 Why do you try to mislead your reading public in effort to break down a better spirit of goodwill between the people's of South Africa.
    02.11.30 While I stand for press freedom, and while I plead for good relationships with the press between the press and the government .. South Africa's most responsible people are worried about the sensationalism practised by some irresponsible papers in this country. I think the time has come for Parliament to perhaps reconsider the Report of the Commission of Inquiry under Chairmanship of ...

    APRIL 1985: MOUNT MORIA ANNUAL ZIONIST CHURCH MEETING NEAR PIETERSBURG
    02.12.13 Wide top view of ZCC sign on hill
    02.12.21 Thousands attending service
    02.12.25 PW Botha with wife Elize getting out chopper walkingv red carpet
    02.13.10 Addressing throusands of ZCC supporters " Our peoples are being cared for and our peoples are being protected. We shall continue to do so. The forces of darkness must be kept out of our country. They harm innocent people. They stand in the way of peaceful development. We must not tolerate people who come from far away with evil minds to kill and injure innocent people. We must not allow them to burn our houses and destroy our property.
    02.13.52 we must all stand together against these messengers of evil, our trust in God must enable us to withstand evil with firmness. The large majority of people in our communities are responsible people. There is a mass of goodwill among our peoples, this must be kept so and it must be developed. Our confidence in the future of our country is therefore not a blind confidence; it is a confidence based on what we have and what we can do, our resources, our abilities and the goodwill of all our peoples.

    DATE UNKOWN: PRETORIA UNION BUILDINGS: CABINET?? MEETING
    02.14.51 Botha shaking hands with cabinet ministers
    02.14.59 FW de Klerk seated next to Heunis.
    02.15.18 Rashbansi also seated at table
    02.15.28 Wide establishing shot

    POSSIBLY 1984 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED STATE PRESIDENT: CAPE TOWN PARLIAMENT:
    02.15.35 Botha: I've committed myself and those South Africans of all population groups who have indicated their willingness to co-operate in a process of positive reform, but at the same time, I'm committed to maintain law & oreder and stability in our country. I have already given instructions for appropriate steps to be taken to restore and maintain law 7 order. FW DE KLERK & PIK BOTHA LISTENING
    02.16.06 I would like to refer to the recent tragic incidents at Uitenhage and related subsequent occurrences. I will do so with all the restraint compassion forbearance and sincerity at my command I pray that they will not be interpreted as weakness. With the necessary goodwill and determination this country will continue to be the land of good hope. I therefore appeal to all South Africans of whatever political persuasion who believe in the future of our country to work together towards a peaceful resolution of our differences so that justice and fairness to all may triumph.
    02.16.48 I appeal to those who are prepared to accept the goodwill and good intentions of the government to help as resist and neutralise the efforts of those who wish to destroy rather than to build. I remain convinced that it is us South Africans who will resolve our problems.

    DATE UNKOWN; PRETORIA AT UNION BUILDINGS ZULU KING GOODWILL ZWELETINI MEETING WITH BOTHA
    02.17.20 Zwletini accompanied by Piet Koornhof in Union Buildings
    02.17.29 Shaking hands with PW
    02.17.58 Koornhof followe dby Pik Botha Minister foreign Affairs
    02.18.34 Koornhof with King after meeting walking out

    1984: INAUGURATION OF PW BOTHA AS STATE PRESIDENT: CAPE TOWN
    02.18.50 Motorcade with mounted soldiers coming down street
    02.18.59 Military army vehicles
    02.19.12 Inside church Mimi Coetse singing - opera
    02.19.22 Taking Oath of Office
    02.19.28 Gun Salute from Seinheuwel
    02.19.35 Botha with hat on chest - anthem
    02.19.36 Jet flying in formation - smoke colours of old SA flag
    02.19.50 Speech: We shall act as our own conscience dictates becauese we and not they will be answerable to history for the consequences of our actions. GREAT SOUNDBITE!!

    DATE UNKOWN: BLOEMFONTEIN NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE
    02.20.10 PW in conference hall amidst standing ovation from white audience
    02.20.20 Speech: A country needs unity and we cannot live on negativism. No country can work out a happy future on negativism. But it is above all necessary is that we must display a spirit of patriotism and dedication and the national will to solve the problems of our country.
    02.21.10 Cutaway wife Elize Botha
    02.21.12 The reason why there is a very serious debate taking place about SA, is that the the RSA is an important regional power because of its strategig geographical position and because of its trade and know-how and because of its strategic minerals. So we are forming an important power on the continent of Africa and our success is of the utmost importance to the success of the rest sub-continent of Southern Africa.

    1989: JOHANNESBURG: BOMBING OF KHOTSO HOUSE
    00.00.05 Damaged building - debris in street
    00.00.22 Sign - Danger workmen ahead - police officers and army soldiers
    00.00.46 Exteriors of Afrikaans Newspaper BEELD
    00.00.54 Headline BEELD "Wit wolwe se bom is hulle werk" TRANSLATION White Wolves claim responsibility
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