Roelof ‘Pik’ Botha, South African foreign minister during apartheid, dies at 86

Roelof “Pik” Botha, who spent decades at the center of South Africa’s political and diplomatic life as the last foreign minister under apartheid rule and who later served in the cabinet of the country’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, died Oct. 12 at a hospital in Pretoria. He was 86.

The cause was heart disease, his family announced.