MR VAN WYK
Certainly there was an influence and effect on me.  At school, in discussions with Mr du Plessis he began to predict all these things about how the ANC would take power.  I saw these things happening in front of my eyes.  I saw Mr Mandela being freed, the ANC being unbanned.  I also felt great pity for my people, for my people who would have to go and serve on the border, who had served on the border, they died there for a reason which had basically been cancelled out, and the country had been surrendered, the struggle was for nothing.  All those years of sweating and struggling to protect our interests were all for nothing and everything would be thrown overboard, down the drain.  I clearly saw this coming.  People in the 1994 election armed themselves, equipped themselves with water and provisions and so on, that's what we were expecting, we thought an absolute bloodbath would take place.