Archbishop Desmond Tutu welcomes Mr Govan Mbeki, then Deputy President of South Africa's Senate, to the venue in Heideveld, Cape Town, where Mbeki was to give evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (chaired by Tutu) in April 1996. Mbeki was an ANC leader who was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Mr Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial in 1964. His son, Mr Thabo Mbeki, succeeded Mandela as South African President.