Daily Maverick

Declassified document shows ANC were favourable to offering indemnity to apartheid-era crimes

Episode Summary

Minutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached 48 hours before the 1994 election – igniting accountability questions. Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm explains.

Episode Notes

Minutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached 48 hours before the 1994 election – igniting accountability questions. Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm explains.

Reporting by: Marianne Thamm
Filmed by: Joel Seboa
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi
Produced by: Emilie Gambade 
Creative input by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme