South Africa buries apartheid former president

South Africa today said goodbye to former president PW Botha, a man who in life was associated with some of the worst excesses of apartheid, but whose death has shown the strides a bitterly divided country has made toward reconciliation.

Botha, 90, South Africa’s last hard-line white leader, died eight days ago at his home in the seaside resort of Wilderness on the south coast.