TRC SPECIAL MEETING BY TUTU

Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission

ISSUED BY TRUTH AND RECONILIATION COMMISSION SPOKESMAN JOHN ALLEN ON BEHALF OF TRC CHAIRMAN ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called special meeting for tomorrow.

"The TRC will hold a special meeting in Cape Town tomorrow," Archbishop Tutu said.

"I have called the meeting primarily to discuss our approach to discussions which I intent to conduct with the former state president, Mr PW Botha, later this month.

However, we will also be discussing our attitude towards suggestions from within the ranks of the ANC that they will not be applying for amnesty in respect of certain categories of actions undertaken in the past."

7 November 1996