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Special Report Transcript Episode 25, Section 4, Time 28:26Mortimer did say that he could not find any documents on the CCB. // You make the point that no documentation other than that contained in the records of the Harms Commission is believed to exist. Now, is that in fact the case? // Yes. // Are there no records available of the CCB apart from those few documents that were handed in at the Harms Commission? // In the preparation of this paper we failed to find anything else. // Now if there were records would you have expected to have found it? I’m trying to understand what the position is, because it says, ‘it is believed’ that those are the only records available. // Well, we looked for other records which would I think indicate that one would expect to find them, but we have failed to do so. Notes: Denzil Potgieter (Truth Commission); Mortimer References select each tab to search for references TRC Final ReportSouth African Defence Force 66 In June 1997, the Commission began trying to set up the joint investigative team. It was hoped, at that stage, to conduct a broad investigation of record destruction by SADF structures. However, the team was only finally constituted in December 1997, after several ... ■ THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND ITS MANIPULATION Apartheid and official secrecy 24 Perhaps all governments are, to a greater or lesser extent, uncomfortable with the notion of transparency, preferring to operate beyond the glare of public scrutiny. In apartheid South Africa, government secrecy was ... |