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| “ | Jaapie: I owe you something, you little bastard! I was beaten by my father for the shame of being expelled. I was made to live in the barn! I was not allowed to go back to school. My life was sh-t! PK: You can't be serious, you tried to kill me! Jaapie: I was branded an idiot by everyone who knew. Gideon: They knew you well. |
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| ~ Jaapie Botha blames his life's misfortunes on PK. |
Jaapie Botha, also called The Judge, is the main antagonist of the book and film adaptation of The Power of One. He is the arch-nemesis of PK.
As an adult, he was portrayed by Daniel Craig, who also voiced Red Rackham in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. As a teenager, he was portrayed by Robbie Bulloch.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Jaapie Botha was a bully and racist from the start, who bullied PK at school.
- In one incident, Botha and some of his accomplices urinate on PK, earning the latter the name "Piss-kop" (piss-head in Afrikaans).
- Botha's bullying was so extreme that PK got a severe case of bed wetting, a habit which he managed to overcome only through the help of Dabula Manzi.
- When World War II breaks out, Botha has PK and his pet chicken Mother Courage kidnapped and tried before a mock Nazi court where Botha elaborates on the depth of his hatred for the British—a people he holds responsible for atrocities committed during the Second Boer War.
- Although Botha had a reason to hate the British, it doesn't excuse any of his actions.
- Botha had Mother Courage hanged and mercilessly killed her.
- Mother Courage's death caused PK to snap and physically retaliate. Enraged, Botha attempted to execute PK in a similar manner. PK survived only because a teacher intervened.
- Botha's actions against PK got him expelled and reprimanded. He even got abused at home. Botha blamed PK for what happened and sought revenge even after years passed, despite the fact that PK was innocent and Botha's own actions caused his misfortune.
- At some point, Botha joined the South African Police, becoming a sergeant and serving as the right-hand man of Colonel Breyton, with whom he spread and enforced xenophobic policies. It wasn't until Professor Daniel Marais requested Breyton to put an investigation on PK's ties to a multiracial boxing gym and his secret date with the professor's daughter Maria, that PK's enmity with Botha starts to comes full circle.
- Jaapie Botha and Colonel Breyton, placed PK under surveillance for subversion. PK's clashes with the police (which resulted in detainment of numerous people he knew) came to a head when Gideon Duma was severely injured and Maria was killed during a raid on their school in a church along with numerous other innocent people. Maddened by grief, PK considered going to study at Oxford in England, but was consoled by a recovering Gideon who showed him that all his teachings have finally shown progress and reminded him of all the good he can still do in Africa.
- He repeatedly hits Gideon in the face with his riding crop, blinding his left eye.
- Botha and Breyton led a violent raid on Alexandra the following night. During the battle, many of the citizens and South African Police officers are killed, including Breyton himself.
- Botha wasn't sad over Colonel Breyton's death, showing that he never truly cared about him.
- Botha tried to murder Elias Mlungisi, the local boxing promoter, while sadistically taunting him. He failed only due to PK's intervention.
- He fought PK, who defeated him. Despite the loss, a bloodied and vindictive Botha was still bent on killing him with a hidden pistol, but an arriving Gideon brutally killed Botha with a cricket bat to the head before he can fire just in time.
- Due to his actions, PK and Gideon became wanted fugitives from the apartheid government.
- Although his death was brutal, it wasn't played for sympathy in universe and he indeed deserved it for his heinous actions.
External Links[]
- Jaapie Botha on the Villains Wiki
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