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Transcripts for Section 2 of Episode 16
| Time | Summary | | | 17:10 | The vehicle that the government established to implement its then total strategy and to coordinate the activities of all branches of the government in response to what it viewed as the total onslaught was the national management system. This inevitably led to the politicization of the role of the security forces and their involvement in civilian administration. | Full Transcript | | 17:39 | Successive states of emergency created an environment where secret units of the security forces flourished. Units like the shady Civil Cooperation Bureau and the police death squads at Vlakplaas were formed. | Full Transcript and References | | 17:52 | However, I’m now quoting: ‘However, far reaching security legislation and the state of emergency with the suspension of many normal legal protective measures also created circumstances and an atmosphere which were conducive to many of the abuses and transgressions against human rights which forms the basis of the Commission’s present investigations.’ | Full Transcript | | 18:20 | PW Botha suffered a stroke in 1989. He was succeeded by Frederik Willem de Klerk. De Klerk was faced with this choice: more radical reform or more radical repression. He chose reform. // ‘Tomorrow will bring us to the end of a long chapter. What I’ve announced today was started by my predecessor a number of years ago. Since the moment that Mister Mandela met him at Tuynhuis and since the moment that in that discussion Mr. Mandela clearly stated his commitment also to peaceful solutions it has become a certainty that he would be released.’ // The process gathered its own momentum. After three years of negotiations South Africa had its first real election and on May 10 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president. // ‘The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come. The time to build is upon us.’ | Full Transcript |
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