JEREMY CRONIN
I'll do my best to try and turn that into a question and then answer it and I think the answer lies in Hani's own words and I refer Ms van der Walt, to the top of page six where he says that
"Until we began to understand clearly what we were up against, it was impossible"
And he's referring to the kicking under the table if you like - the low-intensity conflict that was launched against Black communities.
"Until we understood what we were up against, it was impossible to develop an adequate counter-strategy to this low intensity warfare.  It's essentially a political strategy"
he said.
"And our counter-strategy has therefore also to be essentially political"
Now, you might think that he was a military man case in a military mould, he was a political activist, he was a communist, he was a socialist and his aspirations were moral and political.  He was only secondarily a military person and I think that this quotation underlines that point as many other do as well.
"Our counter-strategy has therefore also to be essentially political, not rushing back to arms, not getting into military ...[indistinct]  The key to countering low-intensity warfare in our specific situation, is to uncover it publicly, to smoke it out and in so doing raise the political price that the regime pays for deploying this strategy"
In other words, not to allow it to happen under cover, under the - ...[indistinct] to appear to be Nkatha or faction fighting or White on Black violence but to smoke it out and to show it for what it is, namely a fairly cynical strategy deployed by the regime at the time.  
	That was his attitude and that was why precisely he was not rushing off to arm himself or to launch an army, he was deeply committed and understood - he had the intelligence to understand that the kind of provocation that your applicants sought to unleash, was precisely to fall into the hands of those who didn't want to see a non-racial democracy in our country - he had the intelligence to  understand that.