SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA MEETS DISGRACED FORMER CRICKET CAPTAIN HANSIE CRONJE

Record ID: 977210

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA MEETS DISGRACED FORMER CRICKET CAPTAIN HANSIE CRONJE
  • Date: 6th October 2000
  • Summary: GEORGE,SOUTH AFRICA (OCTOBER 7, 2000) REUTERS - ACCESS ALL 1. FANCOURT HOTEL RESIDENTIAL AREA 2. NELSON MANDELA AND HANSIE CRONJE COMING OUT OF HOTEL ROOM 3. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) NELSON MANDELA SAYING: "I know many people are going to criticise that I have met him (Cronje). But these are people with short memories. The people who have followed events in this country know what we the ANC went to the apartheid regime which had killed thousands of our people through out the years and treated them like vermin. We nevertheless went to them and said we are South Africans, let us sit down and sort out our problems peacefully." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NELSON MANDELA SAYING: "I do not expect any reasonable person to critise me because I have seen a young man who has fallen from grace. The King Commission is doing its work and advocate Shamila is a brilliant advocate. We are not interfering with that. But it is my duty to say to him, you have made a mistake and that mistake also lies in the fact that you did not from the beginning confess everything that you have done. So that nobody can investigate and come out with things which you yourself have not mentioned. That inquiry must go on and if those allegations are supported them I am sure he is prepared to take the punishement for that. But I look at the matter from a totally different angle. This is a young man who focused attention on the world to South Africa far as the field of cricket is concerned." 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NELSON MANDELA SAYING: "Nevertheless, I am saying to him, he can be a role model and turn that tragedy into triumph. 6. HANSIE CRONJE AND HIS WIFE BERTHA 7. MANDELA THANKING THE PRESS AND WORKING AWAY Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: GEORGE,SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
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