Contentious cassette tape recording in spotlight in ex-Mandela cop case
20 April 2017
Cape Town - An old tape recording has become the focus of the mammoth trial involving the policeman previously hand-picked by former president Nelson Mandela to head an elite investigative unit.
"I really had to climb under the floorboards to get that tape," a witness, Zenzile Khoisan - a journalist of roughly three decades - testified on Thursday.
He was describing the challenge it had been to get his hands on the cassette tape, which he got hold of 16 years ago.
Khoisan previously testified about the recording of a conversation between two police officers during which one allegedly threatened to "bring down" the African National Congress government.