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National Party (NP) leader and Apartheid State President .

Pieter Willem Botha was born on 12 January on the farm Telegraaf in the Paul Roux district of the Orange Free State. He was the only son of Pieter Willem senior, a widower with four children, and Hendrina Prinsloo, nee De Wet, a widow with five children.

He became an excellent horseman and enjoyed hunting at a very young age. Horses and weapons remained major passions in later life. He attended the Paul Roux School and matriculated at the Voortrekker Secondary School, Bethlehem.

In Botha began his law studies at Grey University College, Bloemfontein, where his political career began.

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Initially he helped organize the National Party (NP) during by-election campaigns and also became campus branch chairman. He was also a part-time reporter for Die Volksblad and a member of the Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond (National Afrikaans Student Association). At the age