UK: LONDON: SOUTH AFRICAN DEPUTY PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI VISIT
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- (26 Nov 1997) English/Nat
The South African vice-president on Tuesday said he thought Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was right to insist on appearing in public before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Speaking in London, Thabo Mbeki added he hoped this week's hearings would clear up the rumour and suspicion that have followed Madikizela-Mandela in recent years.
Mbeki was in Britain to attend the first meeting of the U-K-South Africa Bilateral Forum.
South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Downing Street on Tuesday to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his official residence.
The two held talks aimed at strengthening links between the two countries.
After the meeting, Mbeki was asked about the current hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It is currently holding hearings on 18 alleged crimes by Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards as part of its investigation of Apartheid-era human rights abuses.
On Tuesday, a former friend, Xoliswa Falati, testified that Madikizela-Mandela beat a number of young men at her house in Soweto in the 1980s.
The young men included Stompie Seipei, the 14-year-old activist, who was later killed.
Mbeki said he hoped the hearings would put an end to the rumour and suspicion that have surrounded Madikizela-Mandela.
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"It's a good thing that the hearings are taking place and Mrs Mandela herself had insisted that she wanted these hearings to be held in public to deal with stories that had been floating around for many years. I think she was quite right to take that position and hopefully by the end of this week this matter will have been sorted out and will pass beyond the stage of allegation and suspicion and rumour and all of this to get to the truth of all of these things. So I think it's a very good process and as I say I thought she was correct to have insisted that she wanted these hearings in public."
SUPER CAPTION: Thabo Mbeki, South African Deputy President
Testimony so far at the hearing has shown how Madikizela-Mandela and her bodyguards led a reign of terror in Soweto in the late 1980s.
She was convicted in 1991 of kidnapping Seipei, an alleged police informant, and three others in December 1988.
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Thabo mbeki was a good leader indeed
SOUTH AFRICANS MUST UNITE AND SAVE SOUTH AFRICA NOW. Thank you
Thabo was the second best south African president in order to lead a nation you need to be educated not relay on you advisers.
Mlungiseleli Bruce : he enriched himself and committed a lot of fraud, by favoring his partymembers and his own familymembers in state projects.
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