Mbeki says democratic transition required delicate balance [SOUND]

# Former president Thabo Mbeki says the six-year negotiations between the ANC and the apartheid government show how complex South Africa’s transition to democracy was. Mbeki was testifying before the Khampepe Commission examining delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes referred for prosecution by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Mbeki compared agreements reached during the transition to pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. He says changing one part could have affected the entire settlement: