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TRC ROULETTE : ‘I just fed them’ — Jürgen Kögl, businessman who facilitated ‘secret’ post-TRC meetings
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When former apartheid-era generals and the new ANC government met for secret talks about post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions between 1998 and 2004, it was Namibian-born businessman Jürgen Kögl who ‘hosted’ the opposing forces at his home in Johannesburg.
- When former apartheid-era generals and the new ANC government met for secret talks about post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions between 1998 and 2004, it was Namibian-born businessman Jürgen Kögl who ‘hosted’ the opposing forces at his home in Johannesburg.
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- TRC ROULETTE : ‘I just fed them’ — Jürgen Kögl, businessman who facilitated ‘secret’ post-TRC meetings
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