Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era. Botha was relatively liberal for this context. He also served as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996.
Botha was nicknamed 'Pik' (short for pikkewyn, Afrikaans for 'penguin') because of a perceived likeness to a penguin in his stance, accentuated when he wore a suit.He was not related to Prime Minister (later State President) P. W. Botha, under whom he served as foreign minister for 17 years.