leader and hence as Vorster's successor,"
Botha, who was born in 1916, was intelligent, determined, hot-tem-
pered, and domineering. A politician through and through, he was a Na-
tional party organizer at the age of twenty, a member of the Sauer commis-
sion that provided the party with its racial agenda in 1946, and a member
of Parliament for George, an eastern Cape constituency, since the Na-
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