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Mr Chairman, we looked at several possibilities and one factor which played a very 
important role was that the unrest situation in the country deteriorated drastically due to the fact that 
different political parties had begun to form their power bases and this process led to clashes between 
political parties and their supporters and that was what gave rise to escalating violence countrywide and 
this process, in this process unfortunately, all the political parties and mainly the Black political parties took 
a stance at the time because the police tried to remain neutral at the time, that the police were still the other 
ones friend and the police became a target and because at the time we were from different political parties, 
that is why the death rate and the murders of policemen, as far as we could determine, escalated like that. 
The unrest situation also contributed to that because people moved around much easier under those 
circumstances and they killed much more.