Mandela extended his hand,’ he recalled Niel Barnard, who has died aged 75, was head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and right-hand man to President PW Botha during ...

He recounts a memory of Mandela first meeting President P.W. Botha in July 1989. "So we were driving on to Tuynhuys in the car. Obviously, Mr. Mandela was in high spirits ... he was finally going ...