Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 3, Time 19:44

I don’t sleep much, I want to read more. I love philosophy, theology, myths, everything to do with the understanding of life. I believe very firmly that different people think differently, not just over the content of their thinking, but also to do with the manner in which they approach things. It’s almost like listening to the radio, if you are tuned into a particular station – you are now on 5FM, there is no way you hear the SAFM broadcast. So in a sense you have to key into the frequency of the listener and then communicate in that language. I was often near despair precisely because of the fact that it was a project that had no preparatory work done, with few procedures that we tried to create in the actual process. With our different ways of understanding tried to create in the actual process. With our different ways of understanding of both procedures and process it is for me an exercise in reconciliation even though it is only with my fellow commissioners. And I am sure they all experience the same in relation to each other and to me. It’s difficult to talk about the goal of the process, because we know the saying, which I learnt in Latin classes at school – ‘as many options as people.’ We are 17 commissioners; we all come out of different backgrounds, figuratively speaking 17 of them in the land. We see things differently. That’s the important, first step in peacemaking, to understand that we are all different, where we come from and where each other come from, even our own. For me the goal remains national unity and reconciliation. Not as two purposes, but as one single idea. National unity and reconciliation. Together, as South Africans, as we find each other today, to live for the future.

Notes: Wynand Malan

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