Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
March 24, 1997
"The Truth and Reconciliation Commission today received the document containing the National Party's answers to questions we put to them in response to the party's initial submission to us last year.
"We will be studying the answers carefully in the hope that they will provide valuable information for the work of the Commission. We will not make any public comments before political parties are recalled before the Commission in the week beginning May 12.
"We note Mr de Klerk's comment that the wording of our questions suggests that we have already made up our minds on the issues under review. The fact that other parties - including the ANC and the IFP - have found the questions to be probing and uncomfortable suggests that we have sought to be even-handed and fair.
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