Mbeki denies secret deals to shield apartheid-era generals [SOUND]

# Former president Thabo Mbeki has dismissed as a complete fabrication allegations he held secret meetings with apartheid-era generals to shield them from prosecution. He acknowledged before the the Khampepe Commission he met security force generals who wanted former president FW de Klerk to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Amnesty Committee. Mbeki blamed delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes on the National Prosecuting Authority: