Jace Bothel

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Jace Bothel a book writter

by OfficerJace June 3, 2024

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PW Botha

Pieter Willem "PW" Botha (1916–2006), apartheid's last hardline bulldog prime minister (1978–1984) then state president (1984–1989), nicknamed **Die Groot Krokodil** ("The Big Crocodile" 🐊) for his ruthless, unblinking stare, thick skin, and habit of snapping at enemies — real or imagined. The croc emoji stuck because he embodied cold-blooded power: slow to move, but when he did, jaws clamped hard.

He ruled during the most violent phase of apartheid's decline:

- Declared the 1985 State of Emergency (and extended it), flooding townships with troops, Casspirs, and detentions without trial.

- Pushed the "Total Strategy" — militarise everything to fight the "Total Onslaught" (communism, ANC, internal unrest, sanctions).

- Gave whites the Tricameral Parliament (1983) — fake power-sharing with coloureds and Indians to divide non-whites, but blacks got nothing except more repression.

- Oversaw cross-border raids into Angola, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland; bombed neighbouring countries; backed death squads and proxy wars.

- Famous for finger-wagging TV speeches ("adapt or die"), refusing to release Mandela until conditions met, and snarling at critics like a cornered reptile.

"PW Botha was the real Krokodil — sat there on TV wagging his finger like 'adapt or die,' while the comrades were turning townships ungovernable and the world was sanctioning us to hell."

by Plot Master March 18, 2026

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law of conservation of botheration

The heavily researched theory that botheration cannot be created nor destroyed under the laws of chemistry. If someone bothers you, you cannot hold that botheration in; therefore, you must bother someone else in order for a proper transfer and balance in he world.

Veronica bothered me and now I must bother Elodie in order to satisfy the law of conservation of botheration.

by elfastasmo November 28, 2021

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