Giliomee interviews with Mandela, civil servants and cabinet ministers

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	Hermann Giliomee
Coverage	1984-1992
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Giliomee (1995)	Cabinet ministers' public and private interviews 1988-89 and senior party spokespeople in the 1992 referendum campaign	1988-1992	Supports claim that sanctions both hindered and contributed to the government's decision to negotiate.
Giliomee (1995)	Interview by author with Nelson Mandela, 12 March 1992	12 March 1992	Supports account of pre-negotiations from July 1986, with Mandela insisting on meeting Botha only 'as equals'.
Giliomee (1995)	Interviews by author with civil servants attending the special cabinet committee meetings (1984 committee on political rights for Africans)	c.1984 committee; interviews date not given	Establishes that specialists presented demographic scenarios to the committee, convincing De Klerk that coercion was no solution.