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by Anthony Sampson


  24 Ungovernability: 1986–1988

  1. “Your Logic Frightens Me,” Wole Soyinka, Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems, p. 3

  2. Long Walk, p. 633

  3. Gregory, op. cit., p. 265

  4. Bizos, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  5. Amina Cachalia, interview with author, July 23, 1996

  6. Long Walk, pp. 626–7

  7. Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  8. Sisulu, interview with Houser and Shore, op. cit.

  9. Bizos, interview with author, Jan. 22, 1999; Sparks, op. cit., pp. 29–31

  10. The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on Southern Africa, Mission to South Africa: The Commonwealth Report, pp. 56–62

  11. Pik Botha, in d’Orville, op. cit., p. 64

  12. Crocker, op. cit., p. 315

  13. The Sampson Letter, Feb. 4, 1986

  14. Woodrow Wyatt (ed. Sarah Curtis), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 95

  15. Waldmeir, op. cit., pp. 95–6

  16. Mission to South Africa, op. cit., pp. 67–8

  17. Howe, op. cit., pp. 484–5; Anthony Barber, Taking the Tide, pp. 164–73

  18. Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 96

  19. Mission to South Africa, op. cit., p. 63; Barber, op. cit.; Pik Botha, in d’Orville, op. cit., p. 67

  20. Nancy Harrison, Winnie Mandela: The Mother of a Nation

  21. Winnie Mandela, interview with author, Oct. 22, 1996

  22. The Sampson Letter, Sept. 10, 1985, March 4, 1986

  23. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 92

  24. Gilbey, op. cit., p. 145

  25. Star, April 16, 19, 1986

  26. See also Gilbey, op. cit., p. 146

  27. Private information

  28. Winnie Mandela, interview with author, Oct. 22, 1996

  29. Ismail Ayob, conversation with author, July 19, 1998; Kathrada, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  30. Mission to South Africa, op. cit., p. 61; Pik Botha, in d’Orville, op. cit., p. 61

  31. Mandela, letter to Connie Njongwe, May 12, 1986

  32. Mission to South Africa, op. cit., pp. 112, 114–16, 119

  33. “Memorandum on Consultation with N. R. Mandela at Pollsmoor Prison, May 19, 1986” (Mayibuye Centre)

  34. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 32, 35; Crocker, op. cit., p. 315; P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  35. Pik Botha, in d’Orville, op. cit., p. 67; Thatcher, op. cit., p. 519; Howe, op. cit., p. 485; Crocker, op. cit., p. 316; Long Walk, p. 630

  36. Mission to South Africa, op. cit., p. 135; private information

  37. The Sampson Letter, July 1, 1986

  38. Long Walk, p. 631; Sparks, op. cit., p. 35

  39. Niël Barnard, interview with author, Feb. 5, 1998

  40. Nelson Mandela Speaks, p. 154

  41. Long Walk, pp. 631–5

  42. Gregory, op. cit., p. 380

  43. Mandela, letter to Rayne Mandela, undated

  44. New York Times, Jan. 22, 1986

  45. Maki Mandela, letters to Mandela, Jan. 23, 1987, Feb. 18, 1988

  46. Mandela, letter to Maki Mandela, Feb. 18, 1987

  47. Zeni Mandela, letter to Mandela, May 25, 1987; Mandela, letter to President Silber (Boston University), June 30, 1987 (Prison Records)

  48. Mandela, letters to Zindzi Mandela, May 18, 1987, Nov. 23, 1987, March 1985

  49. Mandela, letter to Mary Benson, May 6, 1987

  50. Mandela, letter to Fatima Meer, March 1, 1988

  51. Mandela, letter to Kepu Mkentane, Feb. 25, 1987; Frieda Matthews, letter to Mandela, Nov. 24, 1986

  52. Mandela, letter to a friend, undated; Kathrada, comments on text

  53. Lodge and Nasson, op. cit., p. 88

  54. Robin Renwick, Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa, p. 113

  55. Robert Harvey, “The Great White Trek: A History of the Afrikaner Tribe from van Riebeeck to the Fall of Apartheid” (unpublished)

  56. Lodge and Nasson, op. cit., pp. 103, 109, 114

  57. Sunday Independent, April 21, 1996

  58. Financial Mail, June 20, 1986

  59. Lelyveld, op. cit., p. 356

  60. Thatcher, op. cit., p. 532; Howe, op. cit., p. 490

  61. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Vol. 2, p. 464

  25 The Lost Leader: 1983–1988

  1. Crocker, op. cit., pp. 321–4; George Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State, p. 1123; private information

  2. Howe, op. cit., pp. 489–91, 497

  3. Thatcher, op. cit., pp. 521–2

  4. Financial Times, Feb. 5, 1986

  5. Lord Renwick, interview with author, Oct. 2, 1996; O. Tambo, conversation with author, May 29, 1987

  6. Enos Mabuza, interview with author, July 24, 1996

  7. Renwick, op. cit., pp. 113–14; private information

  8. See Guardian, Oct. 19, 1987

  9. Howe, op. cit., p. 489; Renwick, interview with author, Oct. 2, 1996

  10. Edward Seaga, interview with author, Nov. 6, 1987

  11. Adam and Moodley, op. cit., p. 120

  12. Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 71; Sir Patrick Fairweather, interview with author, Oct. 3, 1997; Observer, Sept. 25, 1988

  13. Black and Gold, p. 246

  14. Mandela, letter to Effie Schultz, April 1, 1987

  15. O. Tambo, conversation with author, Jan. 21, 1987

  16. Waldmeir, op. cit., pp. 63–4, 69

  17. Black and Gold, pp. 228–9; Chris Alden, Apartheid’s Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State, p. 267, citing Niël Barnard, Die Beeld, Feb. 19, 1992; Dr. Daan Prinsloo, Stem uit die Wilderness; ’n Biografie oor oud-pres. P. W. Botha, p. 280; P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  18. Paul Johnson, Gold Fields: A Centenary Portrait, p. 94

  19. Michael Young, interview with author, April 12, 1995

  20. Kathrada, interview with author, July 24, 1996

  21. P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  22. Reply from Kobie Coetsee to Advocate S. C. Jacobs in Parliament, April 19, 1990 (Prison Records)

  23. Mbeki, Sunset at Midday, p. 86

  24. O. Tambo, conversation with author, Dec. 26, 1987

  25. Sparks, op. cit., p. 60

  26. Alden, op. cit., p. 267, citing Die Beeld, Feb. 19, 1992

  27. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996; Long Walk, p. 638

  28. Observer, March 1, 1987

  29. Mbeki, Sunset at Midday, pp. 103–4

  30. Sampson, diary, Sept. 23–27, 1987

  31. Mandela, foreword to Tambo, op. cit., p. xi

  32. Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  33. Long Walk, p. 640; Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 101

  34. Colonel J. G. Lourens, report on Mandela, May 14, 1988 (Prison Records)

  35. Long Walk, pp. 640–2

  36. Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  37. Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 67; Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  38. Thabo Mbeki, interview with author, Oct. 19, 1996

  39. Young, interview with author, April 12, 1995

  40. Manoim, op. cit., p. 86

  41. Guardian, April 30, 1994

  42. ANC News Briefing, June 12, 1988

  43. Kathrada, letter to Paul Joseph, Aug. 26, 1988

  44. SABC, Comment: The Mandela Campaign, June 14, 1988

  45. [Johannesburg] Sunday Times, July 10, 1988

  46. Star, June 14, 1988; Sowetan, July 19, 1988, citing Die Beeld, July 18, 1988

  47. ANC News Briefing, July 24, 1988

  48. Amina Cachalia, interview with author, July 31, 1997; Sunday Star, July 24, 1988

  49. Mamphela Ramphele, A Life, pp. 200–1

  50. Kathrada, letter to J. N. Singh, Sept. 16, 1988

  51. Gregory, op. cit., p. 287

  52. Long Walk, pp. 645–6; Mandela, comments on text

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bsp; 53. Sunday Times, Aug. 14, 21, 1988

  54. Emergency Meeting of the National Working Committee, Oct. 28, 1988, “Nelson Mandela’s Possible Release: Decisions of the National Working Committee,” Oct. 28, 1988 (Mayibuye Centre, Cape Town)

  55. Kathrada, letter to J. N. Singh, Sept. 16, 1988

  56. Fiona Duncan, letter to Mandela, Nov. 1989 (Prison Records)

  57. Long Walk, p. 650

  26 “Something Horribly Wrong”: 1987–1989

  1. Ismail Ayob, press release on behalf of Nelson Mandela, July 29, 1988

  2. Azhar Cachalia, statement to the TRC, Nov. 1997

  3. TRC Report, Vol. 2, pp. 578–9

  4. W. Madikizela-Mandela, testimony to TRC, Dec. 1997

  5. Sunday Independent, Nov. 30, 1997

  6. TRC Report, Vol. 2, p. 582

  7. Amina Cachalia, interview with author, Aug. 29, 1996

  8. TRC Submissions: Questions and Answers, July 25, 1996

  9. W. Madikizela-Mandela, testimony to TRC, Dec. 1997

  10. TRC Report, Vol. 2, pp. 579, 582

  11. Sunday Independent, Nov. 30, 1997

  12. Submission of the Mandela Crisis Committee to the TRC

  13. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Aug. 1, 1988 (Prison Records)

  14. Long Walk, p. 645; Independent, July 30, 1988

  15. TRC Submissions: Questions and Answers, July 25, 1996

  16. TRC evidence

  17. TRC Report, Vol. 2, pp. 565–7

  18. Fred Bridgland, Katiza’s Journey: Beneath the Surface of South Africa’s Shame, p. 69; TRC Report, Vol. 2, p. 567–8

  19. Business Day, Nov. 25, 1997; Daily Telegraph, Dec. 4, 1997

  20. TRC Report, Vol. 2, p. 567

  21. Mandela Crisis Committee, report to Oliver Tambo, Jan. 1989; Mail & Guardian, Sept. 12, 1997

  22. Frank Chikane, letter to Mandela, Jan. 14, 1989 (Prison Records); Mandela, comments on text

  23. Manoim, op. cit., pp. 122–3

  24. Bridgland, op. cit., p. 100

  25. Azhar Cachalia, statement to the TRC; Sunday Independent, Nov. 30, 1997; W. Madikizela-Mandela, testimony to TRC, Dec. 1997

  26. MDM press statement on Winnie Mandela and the MUFC, Feb. 16, 1989

  27. Bridgland, op. cit., p. 119

  28. New Nation, Feb. 16, 1989

  29. Submission of the Mandela Crisis Committee to the TRC; Frank Chikane, report to SACTU/ANC, Feb. 18, 1989

  30. [Johannesburg] Sunday Times, Feb. 19, 1989; Bridgland, op. cit., p. 120

  31. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Feb. 16, 1989 (Prison Records)

  32. Meer, op. cit., p. 322

  33. Amina Cachalia, interview with author, Aug. 29, 1996

  34. Dullah Omar, interview with author, Feb. 12, 1997

  35. Record of Stanley Mogoba’s visit to Nelson Mandela, Feb. 23, 1989 (from a verbal report given to Peter Storey after visit)

  36. Mandela, letter to a friend, Feb. 28, 1989

  37. Sampson, diary, March 6, 1989

  38. Oliver Tambo, notes (Tambo Archive, Fort Hare)

  39. Report of President’s Committee meeting with Beyers Naude, April 25, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  40. W. Madikizela-Mandela, hearings with TRC, Dec. 1997

  41. TRC Report, Vol. 2, pp. 581–2

  27 Prisoner vs. President: 1989–1990

  1. Ahmed Kathrada, letter to Zohra, Jan. 25, 1989; Gregory, op. cit., pp. 310–12

  2. Long Walk, pp. 653–4; government team document, Sept. 1, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  3. Government team document, Sept. 1, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  4. Maharaj, interview with author, Feb. 12, 1998; Report of President’s Committee meeting with Beyers Naude, April 25, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  5. Report of President’s Committee meeting with Ismail Ayob, undated (Mayibuye Centre)

  6. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 60–1

  7. Barbara Masekela, interview with author, Oct. 26, 1997

  8. Tim Jenkin, “Talking to Vula: The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula,” Mayibuye, May–Oct. 1995; Sparks, op. cit., pp. 62–7

  9. Report of President’s Committee meeting, April 28, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  10. O. Tambo, notes, undated (Tambo Archive, Fort Hare)

  11. Barbara Masekela, interview with author, Oct. 26, 1997

  12. Bizos, interview with author, Feb. 21, 1998

  13. Sisulu, interview with author, Nov. 27, 1995

  14. [Johannesburg] Sunday Times, Nov. 16, 1997

  15. Powell, conversations with author, Feb. 12, 1989, Oct. 3, 1996

  16. Waldmeir, op. cit., pp. 109–10; Fairweather, interview with author, Oct. 3, 1997

  17. Sampson, diary, Dec. 26, 1988, Jan. 24, 26, 1989

  18. Renwick, op. cit., p. 133; Daily Telegraph, March 25, 1989

  19. Thabo Mbeki, interview with author, April 25, 1988; Harvey, op. cit.

  20. Guardian, June 24, 1989; Sampson, diary, June 8, 1989

  21. Hyman Bernadt, interview with author, Oct. 13, 1996

  22. Mandela, letter to Robin Renwick, April 10, 1989; Weekly Mail, April 14, 1989

  23. South, May 1989

  24. “South Africa’s African National Congress: Weathering Challenges” (declassified CIA research paper), March 1988

  25. “South Africa Entering the 1990s” (declassified CIA document), Africa Review, Special Issue, Jan. 20, 1989

  26. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996

  27. Weekly Mail, April 21, 1989

  28. O. Tambo, notes, May 1989 (Tambo Archive, Fort Hare)

  29. Weekly Mail, July 21, 1989; Independent, June 23, 1989

  30. Lodge and Nasson, op. cit., pp. 110–15

  31. P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998; Prinsloo, op. cit., p. 285

  32. Long Walk, p. 657

  33. Frene Ginwala, interview with author, Oct. 11, 1996

  34. Mandela, comments on text; Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  35. Sparks, The Death of Apartheid (film); Prinsloo, op. cit., pp. 286–7; Long Walk, p. 659; Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 24, 1997

  36. Alden, op. cit., p. 271, citing Die Beeld, Feb. 19, 1992; Barnard, interview with author, Feb. 5, 1998; Cape Times, Nov. 18, 25, 1991; P. W. Botha, op. cit., pp. 430–4; for the photograph of the meeting, see Albrecht Hagemann, Nelson Mandela, p. 116

  37. Long Walk, p. 659; Observer, July 9, 1989; Star, July 13, 1989

  38. Barnard, interview with author, Feb. 5, 1998

  39. Robin Renwick, op. cit., p. 137; Willem de Klerk, F. W. de Klerk: The Man in His Time, p. 61

  40. Kathrada, letter to Eddie Daniels, July 22, 1989

  41. Kathrada, interview with author, Feb. 7, 1997; Sisulu, interview with Houser and Shore, op. cit.

  42. Government team document, Sept. 1, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  43. Barbara Masekela, interview with author, Oct. 26, 1996

  44. Maharaj, comments on text; Financial Times, Aug. 22, 1989

  45. Long Walk, p. 663

  46. Financial Times, Aug. 24, 1989

  47. W. de Klerk, op. cit., p. 22

  48. Robin Renwick, interview with author, Oct. 2, 1996

  49. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 110–14

  50. Sisulu, interview with Houser and Shore, op. cit.

  51. Plan of Action After the Release of the Political Prisoners: Lusaka, Zambia, Oct. 9, 1989 (Mayibuye Centre)

  52. Kathrada, interview with author, Jan. 26, 1996

  53. Daily Telegraph, Oct. 18, 1989

  54. New Nation, Oct. 13, 20, 1989

  55. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996; Kathrada, interview with author, Nov. 27, 1995

  56. South, Oct. 19, 1989

  57. Weekly Mail, Oct. 20, 1989

  58. Anthony Seldon, Major: A Political Life, p. 97

  59. “South Africa: Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal” (declassified CIA document), Africa Review, Jan. 19, 1990

  60. Independent, Oct. 13, 1989


  61. Long Walk, pp. 662, 660

  62. Guardian, Oct. 16, 1995

  63. Meer, op. cit., p. xviii; Meer, “Past-Postscript” to Higher than Hope (unpublished in English)

  64. Sidelsky, interview with author, Oct. 23, 1996

  65. Ramphele, op. cit., p. 203

  66. Daniels, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  67. Mandela, letter to Kapitans restaurant, Sept. 25, 1989

  68. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 105–6; Waldmeir, op. cit., pp. 136–7

  69. Long Walk, p. 663

  70. F. W. de Klerk, letter to author, Dec. 1996

  71. Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 147; Long Walk, pp. 664–5

  72. Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 147; W. de Klerk, op. cit., p. 80

  73. Business Day, Feb. 5, 1990; Sparks, The Death of Apartheid (film); Motlana, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  74. Mandela, letter to Richard Maponya, June 28, 1989

  75. Independent, Nov. 24, 1989

  76. Black and Gold, p. 197; Financial Times, Jan. 27, 1990

  77. Citizen, Jan. 16, 1990

  78. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  79. New Nation, Dec. 8, 1989

  80. South, Dec. 11, 1989

  81. Guardian, Jan. 9, 1990; Independent on Sunday, Jan. 28, 1990

  82. W. de Klerk, op. cit., p. 5

  83. Renwick, op. cit., p. 142

  84. Marike de Klerk, Marike: A Journey Through Summer and Winter, p. 153; Waldmeir, op. cit., p. 148

  85. Lynda Chalker, interview with author, Oct. 31, 1997

  86. Renwick, op. cit., p. 142

  87. R. W. Johnson and Lawrence Schlemmer (eds.), Launching Democracy in South Africa, p. 6, citing “private communication”; Renwick, letter to author, 1998

  88. John Dugard (ed.), The Last Years of Apartheid: Civil Liberties in South Africa, p. 152

  89. Independent on Sunday, Feb. 4, 1990; Independent, Feb. 3, 1990

  90. Bizos, interview with author, Feb. 5, 1990; Magubane, interview with author, Oct. 22, 1996

  91. Long Walk, pp. 666–8; Barnard, interview with author, Feb. 5, 1998

  92. W. H. Willemse, letter to Mandela, Feb. 10, 1990 (Prison Records)

  93. Long Walk, pp. 667–8; Gregory, op. cit., p. 357; Kobie Coetsee, Cape Times, Feb. 1, 1991

  94. Dullah Omar, interviews with author, Feb. 13, 1990, Feb. 12, 1997

  95. Long Walk, pp. 671–3

  28 Myth and Man

  1. Ottaway, Chained Together, p. 47

 

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