Anna Elizabeth Botha’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro First Lady of South Africa
Was First Lady
From South Africa
Type Politics
Gender female
Birth

6 May 1922, South Africa

Death

6 June 1997, Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
(aged 75 years)

Politics National Party

Anna Elizabeth Botha, (6 May 1922 – 6 June 1997), born as Anna Elizabeth Rossouw, was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Pieter Willem Botha, from 1984 to 1989. From 1978 to 1984 Mr Botha served as Prime Minister of South Africa.

Anna Elizabeth Rossouw married Mr. Botha on 13 March 1943. She went by the name Elize, and was the daughter of a pastor from Senekal, Dr S.H. Roussouw. They had two sons, Rossouw and Pieter Willem, and three daughters, Elanza, Amelia and Rozanne.

Elize Botha had stayed quietly in the background as the First Lady of South Africa. She earned admiration from Nelson Mandela for helping to arrange a luncheon that Mandela and widows of apartheid-era leaders attended.

She died on 6 June 1997 of a heart attack at the age of 75. She had suffered an aneurysm in 1978 but had been in good health since then.

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