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About this book
My journey with the Coetsee archive
Who was Kobie Coetsee?
Eavesdropping on Mandela
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Dedicated to
all those who worked to
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Many people, including NP members, blamed Coetsee for the outcome of the negotiations around amnesty, and Coetsee had become a controversial figure. However, De Klerk would not say that Coetsee opposed the eventual agreements. After the elections, Coetsee was made president of the Senate, with the support of the ANC. ‘Even now, there’s a very good relationship between him and Mandela. He is one of the few NP former high-profile figures that Mandela never said anything negative about.’20
But comments about Coetsee by another key role player in the transition enter a different landscape. Besides Coetsee, Dr Niël Barnard, head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) from 1979 to 1992, played a major role in the secret talks with Mandela. In an interview with Carlin, he portrayed Coetsee and his role in changing the dynamics around Mandela in a reasonably favourable light. Coetsee, he said, had been ‘critically involved’ in the view that Mandela had to be prepared for life after prison, and leading the country. ‘So Kobie Coetsee was responsible, as far as I can recollect. Let’s now move Mr Mandela from Pollsmoor to Victor Verster … so that he can live in a normal house, so that he can gradually prepare himself for life after prison.’21
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