Special Report Transcript Episode 77, Section 3, Time 47:12

On Friday morning as TRC officials waited for PW Botha to arrive at the State Security Council hearing the ‘groot krokodil’ was casually strolling in his garden at his home in Wilderness in the Southern Cape, seemingly unperturbed by his role in this country’s recent history. At around the same time his lawyer Ernst Penzhorn met with Archbishop Tutu at the TRC’s Cape Town head office to explain that PW Botha was still refusing to cooperate with the Commission’s request that he appears before a public hearing of the TRC. Archbishop Tutu and Alex Boraine responded by walking to the office of the Western Cape Attorney-General Frank Kahn to ask him to take action against PW for trying to hinder the work of the Commission. But the TRC was left with egg on its face when the Attorney-General pointed out that the subpoena had been invalid.

Notes: PW Botha in his garden; Tutu and Boraine on their way to AG’s office

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