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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 34215, member: 1824&quot;]Revjohn13,Idi Amin is depicted on a gold piece that was listed in Krause up until a few years ago.</p><p>One of the most recent dictatorial leaders in southern Africa appears on 2 circulating commemorative coins - the 1 Rand coins from South Africa,which comes in 2 sizes - the large nickel one,which always turns up,&amp; the small one,</p><p>which I have never seen,let alone had.The dictatorial leader in question was P.W. Botha,who is</p><p>the last man to have held the post of Prime Minister</p><p>of South Africa (1978-84).He brought in South Africa&#039;s 2nd Republic (1984-94),which abolished the Prime Ministership,introduced a tricameral parliamentary system,&amp; made the State President of South Africa an executive position wielding massive power.P.W. Botha became the first (&amp; penultimate) executive State President in late 1984.He was replaced in 1989 by F.W. de Klerk (the only State President who has not appeared on a coin),who effectively did away with apartheid &amp; paved the way for the introduction of the 3rd Republic under President Nelson Mandela &amp; the return of South Africa to the British Commonwealth in 1994.Between 1961 &amp; 1984,the constitutional arrangement of South Africa&#039;s 1st Republic was similar to that under the Union (1910-61),in which the State President had non-executive powers similar to the Governor-General,&amp;</p><p>the parliamentary system was a bicameral system.</p><p>The words &#039;Soli Deo Gloria&#039; appears on all silver,</p><p>nickel,&amp; small 1 Rand (except the gold R1) that have been issued since 1965 (including the 1967 R1 coins,which depict H.F. Verwoerd).</p><p><br /></p><p>P.W. Botha was known as &#039;the Great Crocodile&#039;,</p><p>because of his hardline attitude.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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