PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S RECONCILIATION LUNCHì

Record ID: 892831

  • Title: PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S RECONCILIATION LUNCHì
  • Date: 28th July 1995
  • Summary: PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S RECONCILIATION LUNCHì
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  • City: PRETORIA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 95JUL28V02
  • Story Text:PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S RECONCILIATION LUNCHì
    FOR THE WIDOWS OF APARTHEID-ENEMIES ATì
    MAHLAMBA'NDLOPFU [LIBERTAS] IN PRETORIA:

    00.20.06 WIDE OF LADIES SEATED OUTSIDE IN THEì
    GARDEN - MANDELA SPEAKING "I brought together theì
    wives of former...
    00.20.36..these are the wives of the heroes fromì
    both sides...
    00.21.37 MRS ELIZE BOTHA [WIFE OF FORMER STATEì
    PRESIDENT PW BOTHA] COMMENTING [SOUND = BAD]
    RELATING STORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S HORSE WHOì
    WAS SCARED OF ITS OWN SHADOW
    00.23.08 ADELAIDE TAMBO [WIDOW OF FORMER ANCì
    DEPUTY PRESIDENT OLIVER TAMBO] ...our democracyì
    was found on negotiation...started by theì
    president whilst in jail...
    00.23.25 ...the spirit that the president has sownì
    among the nation is reconciliation. We can not ofì
    course forget what happened in the past, but weì
    have endeavoured to forgive...
    00.24.00 ...democracy came too late for the oldì
    people...and for the younger people we are puttingì
    forward a challenge.We say that your elders gaveì
    so much to liberate this country, to make lifeì
    worthwhile...pls. do not betray them. Pls do notì
    take it easy and lose the effect of what has beenì
    fought for by so many for so long...
    00.26.43 WIDE CUTAWAY PRESS
    00.27.40 NONTSIKELEO BIKO [WIDOW OF STEVE BIKO WHOì
    DIED IN DETENTION IN 1977] ...I just want toì
    remind once more the past is very difficult toì
    forget. I feel things that were done by the peopleì
    who some of them are not even here must not beì
    forgotten...
    00.29.10 MRS SALOOJEE [ANC ACTIVIST] ...it's aì
    wonderful beginning of the women of the past toì
    come together for the future...
    00.30.53 MANDELA SAYING THAT PEOPLE THINK THISì
    LUNCH IS AN IDEA THAT CAME FROM HIM ...but thereì
    is a lady here who were the first to congratulateì
    me after I was inaugurated & to encourage me in myì
    new position, and that is Mrs Diedericks [WIFE OFì
    NICK DIEDERICKS]
    00.34.14 VARIOUS GV'S OF LADIES
    00.39.33 MANDELA & LADIES TO DINING ROOM
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