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Malan claims he has nothing to answer for, and Deputy President F.W. De Klerk, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with President Nelson Mandela in 1993, jumped to the generals' defense. He said if Malan and his colleagues were not granted immunity, then senior government figures like the present Defense Minister, Joe Modise, should lose the amnesty they have been granted for having ordered A.N.C. guerrillas to carry out armed attacks and bombings. Mandela dismissed De Klerk's comments as "a joke"; De Klerk's National Party snapped back that Mandela was a con artist...
...leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President denies. Deputy President F.W. De Klerk has said if Malan is prosecuted, Modise should lose his immunity and be tried for ordering ANC guerrillas to commit 'deeds of terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says, "The general was asking for no favors. He would have his day in court, he declared, because he was innocent...
...however. South Africa has a deeply entrenched legal system, which the new government has adopted. And both sides have said they are willing to let the process work." The ANC security minister said the investigation would go forward even if it was necessary to bring former President F.W. De Klerk to court. Malan and his co-defendants were released on bond and ordered to surrender their passports. They are scheduled to be back in court on December...
...distance away, so he won't wag a finger at me." On the line, Mandela is respectful and speaks to Botha in Afrikaans. The conversation is off the record. After hanging up, Mandela calls his two junior partners in the government of national unity, Botha's successor, F.W. de Klerk, and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, and solicits their opinions on Botha's views...
...object lesson of his narrative is not how complicated the negotiating process was but how dicey and tentative, how easily it might have gone off the rails. Divisions within the a.n.c. and the National Party proved more dangerous than discord between them. During the narrative, Mandela and De Klerk emerge not as ideologues or saviors but as hard-headed pragmatists and canny politicians...