Special Report Transcript Episode 70, Section 1, Time 27:12

And then there was Leon Wessels. Wessels has been a leading ‘verligte’ [liberal] in the National Party since the 1980s. He was the first prominent National Party politician to formally and comprehensively apologise for apartheid back in 1991. After the negotiated settlement he played a leading role, with Cyril Ramaphosa, as deputy chair of the body that gave us our new constitution. Wessels this week went much, much further than any former government minister had ever done in dealing with the past.

Notes: Max du Preez

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