JEREMY CRONIN
The intelligent politicians are circumspect, my problem with politicians who confuse circumspection with principal is the chief problem that I would have.
	That certainly we were concerned and uncertain as a Communist Party - I don't want to speak for the Conservative Party, I'm not here to do that but I can speak for the South African Communist Party, certainly in a complicated transition period it's understandable that different components of the political spectrum are going to be circumspect in their approach.  
	But circumspection is one thing, change of policy - unannounced, fudged, confused, is certainly a whole different matter.  When the ANC and it's alliance suspended the armed struggle, we suspended the armed struggle, there was not circumspection about that, we were clear, we were suspending it.  
	There was no confusion, there was no rhetoric which gave our followers - you know, a nudge and wink that they might be at liberty to do what they like and that they could then claim that they were under some illusion that they'd been ordered to do so by Chris Hani or whosoever.  
	So, yes, we were circumspect, yes, we were uncertain about our safety, yes, we were not sure if the negotiations would produce peace but as we changed our policy in regard - for instance to violence, we said it very clearly and we committed ourselves as a leadership to that.
	When we were engaged in armed struggle, we were clear that we were engaged in armed struggle and we assumed full political responsibility for that, so if in this area of circumspection which you are trying to introduce into the question, you're trying to fudge a number of different things then I'd advise you not to because I'm very clear in my own mind what our attitude ..[inaudible]  
	We were circumspect about - we were concerned about people who were in the underground who might be arrested, our circumspection proved correct.  They were not waging an armed struggle - those people in that underground, they were not preparing an insurrection but they were survivors from an underground.  
	Some of them had not survived, some of their fellow members had died in detention - we were circumspect absolutely, we were concerned about their safety but in time and quite rapidly we were able to surface them as well.