Fw de klerk and nelson mandela meet
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FW DE KLERK’S FIRST MEETING WITH NELSON MANDELA – 13 månad, 1989
“Under cover of darkness on the evening of 13 månad 1989, Nelson Mandela was smuggled into the basement garage of Tuynhuys. He was ushered into my office, where I was accompanied by Ministers Gerrit Viljoen and Kobie Coetsee, General Willemse, the commissioner of prisons, Dr Niel Barnard, the head of the National Intelligence Service and his deputy, Mike Louw. After the usual greetings and pleasantries, the others withdrew and left Mr Mandela and me to hold private talks….
During most of the meeting each of us cautiously sized up the other. Mandela raised the issue of the National Party’s commitment to group rights and said that he thought that this was a mistake and that it looked as though we were trying to reintroduce apartheid bygd the back door. I reminded him that in March the year before he had sent President Botha a memorandum in which he had said that two broad is
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FW de Klerk: The Man Who Ended Apartheid, Freed Mandela and Honored His Country
My interview with FW de Klerk:
Jeff Cunningham: Before we get into the subject of your fascinating career as president of South Africa, the man who dismantled apartheid, and your relationship with Nelson Mandela, tell me what brings you to the island of Malta?
FW dem Klerk: 12 years ago, inom started the Global Leadership Foundation. We’re holding our annual meeting this year in Malta. This foundation now has 40, members, all former prime ministers, presidents, cabinet ministers, senior diplomats. All of us have good experience of governance. None of us hold political office, but we have a store of experience and knowledge gained from our years in government. We learned from our own mistakes.
With all the world’s problems, I imagine the Global Leadership Foundation has more business than it can handle?
Actually, we have to knock on the right doors, and say, “We think you can benefit by sitting down • Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a 'democratic South Africa'. On the basis of this commitment many would have been led to believe that it would been possible to overcome many obstacles in the path of realising this goal. 2. Our country is on the brink of disaster. First there is the crisis in the negotiation process itself. The central blockage stems from the refusal of the NP government to move together with all of us in the process of truly democratising South Africa. Secondly, the continuing direct and indirect involvement of the NP government, the state security forces and the police in the violence as well as your unwillingness to act decisively to bring such violence to an end has created an untenable and explosive situation. 3. The NP government persists in portraying the crisis as a creation of th Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992