Issued by: Office of the President
I wish to confirm that I visited Mr. Mzwakhe Mbuli on 20th January 1999, in Pretoria Local Prison.
I informed the Prison official who granted the visit that I was visiting Mr. Mbuli in my personal capacity, and not on behalf of the ANC, or the Government. I was seeing him as an ex-prisoner myself to express my admiration and appreciation for his work while we were in prison and after our release. I repeated this to Mr. Mbuli in the presence of the prison officer, who remained with us for the entire duration of the visit. At no stage did Mr. Mbuli's case come up for discussion.
Because this was a personal visit I did not find it necessary to inform the President before or after the visit.
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