JAKOBUS JOHANNES DE RU
I understand your question Your Honour.  I am asking you to understand this in the light of the period where this occurred.  I understand the statement by the Chairman, but the situation in the present time is not the same as during the period 1988 to 1992, there was a heightened campaign against farmers and older people due to politically motivated slogans and convictions.  The impact of the statements of leaders on these people, it might well be that there would have been crimes committed previously that would have been seen differently, but I am asking you to see this in the light of the circumstances of that time, the statements by political leaders, the impact of that on people and that is why I believed that these were politically motivated acts.