This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory,
but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the
product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses,
chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the
apartheid and post-apartheid eras. 14 Aug 1991: Jones, Colin POM
I would like to begin by looking at two things. One, it seems to
be that the government, the National Party and the ANC as being
the two major forces in this process, have fundamentally
different perspectives of what the problem is that they are
going to negotiate about. How do they establish common ground to
get some meeting point else their two perspectives wouldn't be
crossing. CJ Well I think that brings the question as to what
those perspectives are and I think if you boil it down to the
simplest and then its simplistic form, my perspective says that
the Nationalist government's problem is that it sees the issue
as being a white problem. In other words if you look at the
whole Ventersdorp debacl