Anna Elizabeth Botha (; 6 May 1922 – 6 June 1997) was the

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, as the wife of State President

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, from 1984 to 1989. From 1978 to 1984 Botha served as Prime Minister of South Africa. Anna Elizabeth Rossouw married Botha on 13 March 1943. She went by the name Elize, and was the daughter of a pastor from

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, 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

. She earned admiration from

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for helping to arrange a luncheon that Mandela and widows of apartheid-era leaders attended. She died on 6 June 1997 at the age of 75. She had suffered an aneurysm in 1978 but had been in good health since then.

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