In Place in Two Capitals

The first period was spent setting up offices in the premises rented in the Sanlam building, roughly in the centre of the city, getting a telephone and fax connection and acquiring a car telephone.

The first period was spent setting up offices in the premises rented in the Sanlam building, roughly in the centre of the city, getting a telephone and fax connection and acquiring a car telephone. All with the help of Lise Skouboe at the now honorary Danish Consulate General in Johannesburg. For the first few months, we sat on cardboard boxes in the still empty office space. It soon became clear that I would have to spend a lot of time in the car, especially on the way to and from Johannesburg, where the ANC headquarters were located. This was before the era of mobile phones, so a car phone consisted of a classic telephone tube wired to a larger battery weighing several kilos.