SOUTH AFRICA: WINNIE MANDELA VISITS HER HUSBAND IN PRISON/MANDELA IS SAID TO HAVE PREPARED STATEMENT ON TALKS WITH P.W. BOTHA.

Record ID: 644038

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: WINNIE MANDELA VISITS HER HUSBAND IN PRISON/MANDELA IS SAID TO HAVE PREPARED STATEMENT ON TALKS WITH P.W. BOTHA.
  • Date: 10th July 1989
  • Summary: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (JULY 10, 1989) ( REUTERS - JIMMY MATHEWS) GV EXTERIOR OF PRISON WHERE MANDELA IS HELD. 0.05 GVS, SV GATES BEING OPENED BY SECURITY AND WINNIE MANDELA DRIVING OUT AFTER SEEING HER HUSBAND, CAMERAMEN. (3 SHOTS) 0.14 SVS MRS MANDELA SPEAKING TO REPORTERS. (2 SHOTS) TRANSCRIPT: SEQ 3 REPORTER: "HOW THE VISiT WAS AND HAS IT CLARIFIED THINGS FOR YOU" MANDELA: "YES OF COURSE IT HAS CLARIFIED THINGS A GREAT DEAL" 0.24 SV, GV NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, PEOPLE BUYING PAPERS (2 SHOTS) 0.39 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (JULY 10, 1989) ( REUTERS - GEOFF CHILTON) CU PULL BACK TO SV MRS MANDELA AND FRANK CHIKANE AT NEWS CONFERENCE AND CHIKANE SPEAKING (ENGLISH SOT) 1.14 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ 5 CHIKANE: "THE REPORT THAT WE RECEIVED BASICALLY IS SAYING WHAT THE LEADER SAID TO MRS MANDELA, IS THAT YOU CAN CONFIRM THAT THE MEETING DID TAKE PLACE. I HAVE DRAWN UP A STATEMENT TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO CLEAR UP THE ISSUE SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES INVOLVED. AND SO HE DID NOT WANT TO CONVEY THROUGH MRS MANDELA THE DETAILS ABOUT THE MEETING THAT HE WANTS TO RELEASE IN A FORM OF A STATEMENT HIMSELF". Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th July 1989 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa, South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3L3IJXLUPWMUPR8ELGKJNPFG5
  • Story Text: Winnie Mandela paid an unscheduled visit to her husband Nelson on Monday to discuss his meeting last week with President P.W. Botha, which has raised hopes for the jailed nationalist's early release.

    Mrs Mandela flew from Johannesburg to the prison outside Cape Town where her husband is being kept for an 80-minute meeting.

    After seeing her husband, she would not comment further than to say the meeting had clarified matters for her and she planned to report back to community leaders.

    Last Wednesday's unexpected Mandela-Botha talks have puzzled black activists, brought guarded optimism from white cabinet ministers and outrage from apartheid hardliners. The government called the meeting between Botha and Mandela a "very positive step," but did not say whether Mandela would be released soon.

    The Reverend Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, said Mandela was seeking to release a statement explaining the talks. Chikane added that the African National Congress (ANC) leader had already drawn up the statement and submitted it to prison authorities.

    Chikane and Mandela's wife Winnie refused to divulge the contents of the statement or say when it might be released.
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