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A war psychosis had been created by theSouth African government using media, television, newspapers,churches and cultural organisation promoting the belief that therehad been a total onslaught on the country, built around the ideathat this was a struggle against communism.  The true picturewas never revealed to the White South African community. Propagandain every form had been used.  The Press, the media was kept outof areas with serious unrest and therefore South Africa and therest of the world did not know what happened.
  Security forces were on a daily basis convinced to act againstthe liberation movements in the context of total onslaught andthe struggle against communism.  There had not been proper communicationbetween government and White voters.  As the struggle continuedmembers of the SAP had to act more and more outside normal policingframeworks and the legal system.  It became more and more a warsituation.  Eventually both sides of the struggle believe thathuman rights violations were necessary in the course of the struggleand such violations were committed on both sides.   Previous commissionersof the South African Police in their presentations to the Commissionaccepted collective responsibility for actions within this contextof struggle.  A particular incident of such propaganda can befound in the book of President Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom,on page 405 2B where/...
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where President Mandela says the following:-
  "By definition if a man worked for the present servicehe was probably brainwashed by the government's propaganda.  Hewould have believed that we were terrorists and communists whowanted to drive the White man into the sea".
Against this background the struggle against the liberation movementscontinued.  The propaganda with which we were fed is thereforeconfirmed by President Mandela himself.