ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Despite the long lines of communication and sometimes poor lines of communications, we got cadres to report back from time to time, that came back to the font line areas to talk to the commanders periodically,  we also got couriers to take messages to the cadres inside the country.
	In all I would say the control was good, it could have been better but it was good, that where there were problems these were communicated to the cadres, where we felt - and it has been explained, when the ANC felt for instance that there may have been a misunderstanding of the whole call to take that struggle into the white areas, then we were in a position to go to front line countries and we also encouraged senior members to go into the country.
	Operation Vula itself was an attempt to build the structures inside of the country, to build a greater and more dynamic contact between the commanding structures, between the leadership and the cadres on the ground and I would say, to a large extent it was good. 
	If one looks at the 1990 period with the end or the suspension of armed hostilities, you found no operations taking place.  Immediately we were able to get the message across, the cadres themselves were highly political, they listened the messages all the time etc.,  and we found that within a very short period of time we were able to communicate to everybody to say: "Stand down, maintain your positions and we will communicate with you".  This is despite the fact that we had long lines of communications.  
	The communications took place telephonically often with code words etc., etc., and sometimes all we were able to do is to send a message to people and say: "Come to a certain point" or "Come outside of the country, come and receive the instructions and orders etc.".  But given the circumstances I would say it was good.