Born January 12, 1916, died November 1, 2006

At the age of 90 PW Botha is the most controversial living leader out of the apartheid era. Ten years ago he announced that he would be granting no more in-depth interviews to the media. Mark Williams of Thuthuka Productions decided that history would be well served if PW Botha changed his mind. He asked veteran TV journalist Cliff Saunders to approach PW and make an interview request. The answer was "yes" - and he was willing to be interviewed in both English and Afrikaans. The unhappy history of the interviews is well known: All television stations found" excuses" not to screen the Botha interviews. The only option left was to make copies available to a public that had indicated that it refused to be subjected to such" censorship".