Special Report Transcript Episode 74, Section 3, Time 23:36

It is impossible to suggest, as some have tried, that there is a collective culpability on the part of the business sector. // I believe that we have consistently shown that we did not support the system of apartheid. // Chairperson, the culture was that the organisation stood for change. I mention the 1979 meeting with PW Botha, I wasn’t there but I know many people, who were, and I recall at that time him pointing at businessmen and saying you keep out of politics, you keep to business, we don’t want to hear from you, and that was a consistent theme.

Notes: Raymond Parsons (SA Chamber of Business); Phillip Krawitz (COB); Les Weil (COB)