PRESSER: DESMOND TUTU & ALEC BORAINE re: Truth Commission will subpoena police & military generals; "velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel"

Record ID: 893602

  • Title: PRESSER: DESMOND TUTU & ALEC BORAINE re: Truth Commission will subpoena police & military generals; "velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel"
  • Date: 1st October 1996
  • Summary: PRESSER: DESMOND TUTU & ALEC BORAINE re: Truth Commission will subpoena police & military generals; "velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel"
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  • City: JOHANNESBURG
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT01R01
  • Story Text:PRESSER: TRUTH COMMISSION DESMOND TUTU & ALEX BORAINE re: Will subpoena the Generals; "velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel"

    01.10.07 TUTU ADDRESSING PRESS
    01.10.46 HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE TESTIFYING WHO WERE ALREADY BEHIND BARS
    01.11.07 NOT BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN PROVIDING PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION - WHO KILLED WHO
    01.11.54 WANT TO INDICATE THAT WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING INFORMATION & WE DREW UP A LIST - WILL GO AHEAD WITH SECTION 29 HEARINGS - BASED ON SUBPOENAS
    01.12.14 ...and we had a list and then on the eve of the subpoenas being issues, we got information via the Minister of Safety & Security who asked the offices of the Deputy President that they should inform us that former police generals who believed that they were on this list, were in fact ready to co-operate with the Commission voluntarily. And we said yes...
    01.13.08 ...what we want is information and if they want to give that information voluntarily we will not use the facility of a subpoena...we met with them...they've made a submission...
    01.15.27 ...we are saying, this velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel which can be used when it seems necessary to do so
    01.16.12 WILL A HAVE A 2-STREAM APPROACH
    01.16.40 ALEC BORRAINE: ...what has happened as far as the police generals are concerned - we received a submission from them...we decided that it was totally unsatisfactory....informed them that they have 2 choices: that either they rewrite their submission & in particular include references to specific events of which they said they had information...involving human rights violations...if not prepared to do that, then we would revert back to the earlier decision we made namely of serving subpoenas on all of them.
    01.17.59 ...we will give them until Friday and if we do not receive a satisfactory response from the generals concerned, then we will start the proceedings of serving the subpoenas on Friday....
    01.18.37 ...if the opportunities given are abused, then we have no other alternative but to take the next step which is to serve the subpoenas...same thing in a sense happened regarding to the military generals...
    01.21.18 RE OPTIONS GIVEN TO THE MILITARY GENERALS
    01.23.52 QUESTION TIME
    01.25.18 PRESS CUTAWAYS
    01.36.12 END PRESSER
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