TRUTH COMMISSION: INTERIOR & CUTAWAYS re: Submissions by General Meiring [Chief of SANDF] & Major General Mortimer [SADF] PRESSER: ALEX BORAINE re: Criticising submissions of SADF & Police Commissioners [in JHB]

Record ID: 893654

  • Title: TRUTH COMMISSION: INTERIOR & CUTAWAYS re: Submissions by General Meiring [Chief of SANDF] & Major General Mortimer [SADF] PRESSER: ALEX BORAINE re: Criticising submissions of SADF & Police Commissioners [in JHB]
  • Date: 21st October 1996
  • Summary: TRUTH COMMISSION: INTERIOR & CUTAWAYS re: Submissions by General Meiring [Chief of SANDF] & Major General Mortimer [SADF] PRESSER: ALEX BORAINE re: Criticising submissions of SADF & Police Commissioners [in JHB]
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  • City: CAPE TOWN
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT21R12
  • Story Text:TRUTH COMMISSION HEARINGS IN CAPE TOWN re:
    Submissions by Gnerals Meiring & Mortimer: Cutaways AND PRESSER CHAIRED BY COMMISSIONER ALEX BORAINE re: Criticising submissions of the SADF and Police Commissioners in Johannesburg

    00.46.01 MAJOR GENERAL B. MORTIMER TAKING SEAT IN AUDIENCE
    00.46.16 GENERAL MEIRING [CHIEF OF SANDF] ENTERING & TAKING SEAT AT TABLE
    00.46.36 CUTAWAYS PRESS
    00.47.02 WIDE OF AUDIENCE
    00.47.33 CU MEIRING'S HAT
    00.47.50 CUTAWAYS AUDIENCE
    00.48.11 MORTIMER & GENERAL KLOPPER
    00.48.20 COMMISSIONERS TAKING SEATS
    00.49.07 AUDIENCE
    00.49.16 WIDE ESTABLISHER FROM BACK OF HALL
    00.49.24 COMMISSIONER ALEX BORAINE SHAKING HANDS WITH GENERAL MEIRING AFTER PRESENTATION
    00.49.37 WIDE AUDIENCE
    00.49.55 GENERAL MORTIMER TAKING SEAT AT TABLE
    00.50.20 CU OF MORTIMER'S DOCUMENTS
    00.50.35 CU GENERAL KLOPPER
    00.51.00 CUTAWAY PRESS
    00.51.21 VARIOUS OF AUDIENCE
    00.52.04 GENERAL CONSTAND VILJOEN [LEADER FREEDOM FRONT]
    00.52.12 WIDE OF COMMISSIONERS

    00.52.52 PRESSER: COMMISSIONERS AFTER MORTIMER'S PRESENTATION
    00.53.08 ALEX BORAINE SPEAKING - BREATHTAKINGLY ONE-SIDED AND ALMOST AUDACIOUS IN ITS TOTAL NEGLECT OF ANY CULPABILITY BY THYE SADF WHATSOEVER - FLIES IN FACE OF THE FACTS
    00.53.54 IF ANY TRANSFORMATION - PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPILING PRESENTATION ARE IN THE DARK
    00.54.20 COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS NO EXPRESSION OF CONCERN NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CULPABILITY
    00.55.20 ...whatever else one says about Mr de Klerk's presentation, there was a very clear indication of responsibility & an apology. We have also the added opportunity to go through this but there was no reference in this report whatsoever , even a hint that the SADF was engaged in unlawful activities and when we sought to probe..the answers we got were "we're not sure" "we don't know" "it;s not available" I think we are reasonable in expecting people who make presentations, to know, to know at least something of what really went on...
    00.56.23 ...we got a very bland report from the Police Commissioners and as a direct result of that...we rejected that out of hand and asked them to either change that to re-write it or to be subpoenaed and they declined and we have subpoenaed and this week at least 2 of them will be be subject to Section 29...
    00.56.55 ...former Commissioner of Police Johan van der Merwe was subpoenaed to appear at the Amnesty Committee...has made a number of far-reaching statements and naming of names...
    00.57.42 ...I don't think we have seen in any way nearly the end to the sorts of information and acknowledgements that are going to be coming as a result of a strategy which includes amnesty in the one hand, human rights violations enquiries on the other and the use of the powers of the TRC...
    00.58.19 ...we aren't opposed to anybody; we are committed to truth, and when it doesn't come, we must say it strongly and very clearly that people must not be allowed to get away with half-truths and falsehoods and omissions...
    00.59.02 CUTAWAY PRESS
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