Special Report Transcript Episode 76, Section 2, Time 32:16

I see that Mrs. Seipei is in the audience here today and the thing that has been most difficult for me is that having heard the allegations I did not remove him from the mission house and get him to a place where he could be safe and I think if I acted in another way he could be alive today. And so I want to apologise to Mrs. Seipei for my part in that. // The other person about whom you requested an opportunity to express your feelings is Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela. // I don’t know Mrs. Mandela really. We’ve met face to face briefly in my mission house once. And my feelings about you have taken me in many directions as you can imagine. I long for our reconciliation. I have been profoundly, profoundly affected by some of the things you have said about me, that have hurt me and cut me to the quick. I’ve had to struggle to come to some place of learning to forgive, even if you do not want forgiveness or even think that I deserve to offer that to you. I struggle to find a way in which we can be reconciled. For the sake of this nation and for the people that I believe God loves so deeply. And so I sit before you and want to say that to you. // Chairperson, with the greatest of respect my instructions are, yes Mrs. Mandela would want to communicate with the Bishop, but … and holds the view that if the Bishop had meant to communicate what he communicated today previously he could very well have done that and she will take the opportunity outside of this what we believe to be a camera scenario.

Notes: Paul Verryn; (emotional); Trengove; Ishmail Semenya (Mandela’s lawyer)

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