MR BOTHA
I was recruited as a member of the Orde Boerevolk by an AWB training camp at Theunissen in the Orange Free State. I was notified that a meeting would take place of the Financial Committee of the AWB and that I should attend this meeting.
	I went to the training camp premises and there, as I said, I was recruited by the Orde Boerevolk. When I arrived at the camp, I don't think I knew even five people present there, and I think there must have been about between - this past weekend there was a training camp and of the four hundred, five hundred people present I only knew about five people.
I drove there all the way from Richards Bay so it was round about lunch time when the Financial Committee - the Financial Committee meeting hadn't yet taken place then, and I started becoming impatient because I had to return to Richards Bay on the same day. 
	An unknown person came to me and asked me whether I was Kommandant Piet Botha from Richards Bay, and I answered in the affirmative. He then took me into a building and said I had to walk down the passage and enter the second door on the right as there were people there who wanted to see me. I walked down the passage. I thought that maybe this was the start of the meeting. When I got to the door, the door was closed. I knocked, but it was locked.
The question was asked "Who are you?" and I told them. They asked me to wait for a moment. The door was opened and I entered. Two people were sitting inside the room dressed in khaki clothes, not in the uniform of the AWB, they simply wore khaki clothes without any insignia. Both of these persons wore Balaclavas, and when I entered the room they locked the door behind me, and then they told me that they were members of the Orde Boerevolk and that they had been watching me for quite a considerable time, and that they wanted to appoint me as a member of the Orde Boerevolk.  They wanted me to establish a cell of the Orde Boerevolk in Richards Bay.
As I said earlier in my evidence, they then explained all the objectives of the Orde Boerevolk to me. They showed me this oath form and asked me whether I agreed with each point in the statement and whether I was prepared to take the oath. I read it through and said "yes" I told them that I identified with the objectives and I then took the oath. But who these persons were, I don't know.
Whether I had seen them before I could not tell you because I could not identify them as a result of the fact that they were wearing Balaclavas. We also discussed ways of communicating with each other. For instance, code names, telephone numbers etc. I could contact them and they would be able to contact me.
They also said that they were not interested in who I would recruit as members of my cell. They operated, as the English say "on a need to know basis". You only know what you really need to know. That which you don't need to know about you don't ask questions about. And I was sworn in, in that way.