Declassified 1994 Cabinet minutes reveal Mandela, ANC agreed to indemnity days before election

Southern Africa: Declassified Document Shows ANC Were Favourable to Offering Indemnity to Apartheid-Era Crimes

Minutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached 48 hours before the 1994 election -- igniting accountability questions.

Declassified 1994 Cabinet minutes reveal Mandela, ANC agreed to indemnity days before election

Minutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached 48 hours before the 1994 election – igniting accountability questions.

Declassified document shows ANC were favourable to offering indemnity to apartheid-era crimes

Minutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached 48 hours before the 1994 election – igniting accountability questions. Two days before millions of South Africans prepared to vote in the country’s first historic democratic elections in 1994, then president FW de Klerk and his minister of justice Kobie Coetsee told t…