Special Report Transcript Episode 68, Section 4, Time 36:45

Is there a chance that your generals are keeping things from you the politicians and us the public? // Well, in a sense that’s obviously the 64 000 dollar question. We have had cooperation. At Dr Boraine’s level, he talks positively about the cooperation he’s had with Gen Meiring. I’ve brought them together, that’s been stated, but the proof of the pudding is as they say in the eating. And until we can determine as closely as possible where that material is, what the situation is, if it’s just vanished, that’s as a result of those decisions I referred to and those actions that were taken. Clearly the TRC feels that there’s information to be gained. I’ve tried to find information. One’s got to put in tremendous hours, but there must be the cooperation. And quite frankly my mandate from the Minister of Defence, Joe Modise, is to crack this, to find a way so that the TRC at the end of the day can say, well we understand why it went a bit slowly but in the end we were able to obtain the material we wanted or to look where the material should have been in existence; except that - as it has been reported - this particular material went down the tubes, pre ’94. Other than that the old saying, you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink, that’s the issue.

Notes: Reporter (Jann Turner); Ronnie Kasrils

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