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

Declassified document shows ANC were favourable to offering indemnity to apartheid-era crimes8. Sept.6 Min.

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. Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm explains.