Since the unbanning of the ANC and PAC in 1990, formal negotiations had been opened up by President F.W.De Klerk. President De Klerk’s motives for this were due to a list of dynamics including: sanctions, disinvestment and foreign pressure. After the release of political prisoners (including Nelson Mandela), talks between the government and ANC had begun and CODESA 1 was put together as the final and formal part of negotiations and as a forum to negotiate the transformation to national constitution and democratic elections. Since the beginning of the formal negotiation process on December 1991, provinces around South Africa (especially Kwa-Zulu and Natal) had been subjected to increasing violence because of the feud between …show more content…
It was also found that before the TRC released its final report in 1998, former de klerk filed an urgent application to the Cape High court for an order to interdict findings against him (source A). The commission blacked-out the findings of De Klerk (source A). By doing this De Klerk yet again successfully avoids the attention that his actions highly deserves and avoids confrontation from Nelson Mandela. President F.W. de klerk has been found guilty of being part of ‘Third Force’ activities as the goldstone commission found that he authorized the bombing of the SA council of Churches ‘Johannesburg headquarters and a list of other similar violations of human rights. De Klerk had denied his involvement in these violent outbursts for many years calling President Mandela a liar and blaming the ANC for the violence that broke out. De Klerk had tried to avoid spotlight about his findings by filing an urgent application to the Cape town High court for an order to intercede the commission from publishing any of its findings against him and he had failed to make a full disclosure about his involvement in the ‘Third Forces’. It is without a doubt inevitable that Nobel peace prize winner Fredrick Willem de klerk was involved in authorizing gross violence in South Africa and that the Cabinet committee and security forces were involved in provoking violence inside South Africa between the two political parties and supplying weapons to the