Johannesburg - A former figurehead of white racist rule in South Africa, Mr Pik Botha, is considering joining the ruling African National Congress (ANC), and called in a Sunday newspaper on fellow Afrikaners to do the same.
Mr Botha, who was the apartheid's government's foreign minister for 17 years, said in an interview with the City Press newspaper that the time had come for whites, especially Afrikaners, to reach out to blacks. He said Mr Nelson Mandela had shown the way, and had been a better leader than his own National Party leader, Mr F.W. de Klerk.